From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 27 22:53:26 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF1A716A4BF for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 22:53:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from surfeu.fi (mailbox.surfeu.fi [213.173.154.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 768B643F75 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 22:53:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vezku@surfeu.fi) Received: from [213.173.154.9] (HELO surfeu.fi) by surfeu.fi (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.4.1) with SMTP id 49418610 for freebsd-performance@freebsd.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 08:53:21 +0300 Received: from 62.142.81.6 (SquirrelMail authenticated user vezku) by redbull.tiscali.fi with HTTP; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 08:47:18 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: <4064.62.142.81.6.1062049638.squirrel@redbull.tiscali.fi> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 08:47:18 +0300 (EEST) From: To: X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.11) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Soft Update - directory/file listing X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 05:53:27 -0000 Hey all, I'm having trouble with slow directory/file listing, which especially noticable with SSH. It can be noticed when doing "ls -l" (UID/GID resolving, sorting)on a directory that has only about 200 files/subdirectories. My system is a 5.1-RELEASE, sparc64 on SUN250E (I first asked from the sparc64 list). There are about 5000 accounts on this server. The file system does not have Soft Updates enabled. Would this help? Any similar experiences? All hints greatly appreciated. Thanks! -Vesa, SysAdmin