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Subject: Re: zfs, a directory that used to hold lot of files and listing pause
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Hi,

On 20.10.2016 19:12, Pete French wrote:
> Have ignored this thread untiul now, but I observed the same behaviour
> on mysystems over the last week or so. In my case its an exim spool
> directory, which was hugely full as some point (thousands of
> files) and now takes an awfully long time to open and list. I delet
> and remake them and the problem goes away, but I belive it is the same thing.
>
> I am running 10.3-STABLE, r303832
>
Yup, saw this once on a sendmail spool directory.

Thanks.
Eugene.