From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 20 01:17:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA22137 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 20 May 1997 01:17:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA22082 for ; Tue, 20 May 1997 01:17:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA24122; Tue, 20 May 1997 09:15:28 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 20 May 1997 09:15:28 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: "Brian N. Handy" cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Max # of files with NFS? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 19 May 1997, Brian N. Handy wrote: > Hi there, > > So I have this NFS-mounted directory with 287 files in it. If I cd to > that directory and do an 'ls', that terminal hangs. Top says it's in > 'getblk'. > > The server is a DEC alpha running DU 4.0. The client is running > 2.2-STABLE. > > Is this a problem with too many files? I'm not sure what else it could > be. I just listed a directory with 7800 files it to check. I can't (yet) test directly with DU 4.0 but if you could get a packet trace, it might help diagnose what is happening. Run 'tcpdump -vv -s300 port nfs' while you try to do the 'ls'. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891