Re: stat very inefficient

Nigel Rantor
2004-07-29T11:42:36Z

David S. Miller wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 17:08:37 -0700
> Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org> wrote:
>
>
>>Just How bad is it for you? I just tested stat on my crapbox and for
>>a short path 1M stats takes 0.5s and for a longer path (30 bytes or
>>so) 2.8s.
>
>
> Run "time find . -type f" on the kernel tree, both before and
> after removing the third unnecessary copy. Many machines sit all
> day and stat files.

P2 350MHz 256Mb RAM circa 1998

bash$ time find . -type f

gives

real 0m16.142s
user 0m0.432s
sys 0m2.893s

I'd be interested to see what machine you have that takes all day.

N