From owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Thu Jan 23 16:41:52 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A25F51F6E20 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2020 16:41:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from pyroxene2a.sentex.ca (pyroxene19.sentex.ca [IPv6:2607:f3e0:0:3::19]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) client-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "pyroxene.sentex.ca", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 483SjC2b9Pz3M9D for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2020 16:41:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from [192.168.43.26] (saphire3.sentex.net [192.168.43.26]) by pyroxene2a.sentex.ca (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id 00NGfn8o011787; Thu, 23 Jan 2020 11:41:49 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Subject: Re: slow directory operation on huge dirs To: Wojciech Puchar , Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <9b426949-be87-106a-46c3-f1b6a2e5bb83@quip.cz> From: Mike Tancsa Autocrypt: addr=mike@sentex.net; prefer-encrypt=mutual; keydata= xsBNBEzcA24BCACpwI/iqOrs0GfQSfhA1v6Z8AcXVeGsRyKEKUpxoOYxXWc2z3vndbYlIP6E YJeifzKhS/9E+VjhhICaepLHfw865TDTUPr5D0Ed+edSsKjlnDtb6hfNJC00P7eoiuvi85TW F/gAxRY269A5d856bYrzLbkWp2lKUR3Bg6NnORtflGzx9ZWAltZbjYjjRqegPv0EQNYcHqWo eRpXilEo1ahT6nmOU8V7yEvT2j4wlLcQ6qg7w+N/vcBvyd/weiwHU+vTQ9mT61x5/wUrQhdw 2gJHeQXeDGMJV49RT2EEz+QVxaf477eyWsdQzPVjAKRMT3BVdK8WvpYAEfBAbXmkboOxABEB AAHNHG1pa2UgdGFuY3NhIDxtaWtlQHNlbnRleC5jYT7CwHgEEwECACIFAkzcA24CGwMGCwkI BwMCBhUIAgkKCwQWAgMBAh4BAheAAAoJEJXHwM2kc8rX+sMH/2V6pTBKsQ5mpWWLgs6wVP2k BC+6r/YKNXv9Rw/PrC6+9hTbgA+sSjJ+8gxsCbJsOQXZrxF0x3l9oYdYfuKcwdwXFX1/FS8p HfBeDkmlH+dI709xT9wgrR4dS5aMmKp0scPrXPIAKiYVOHjOlNItcLYTEEWEFBepheEVsgmk GrNbcrHwOx/u4igUQ8vcpyXPyUki+BsftPw8ZQvBU887igh0OxaCR8AurJppQ5UQd63r81cX E1ZjoFoWCaGK/SjPb/OhpYpu5swoZIhOxQbn7OtakYPsDd5t2A5KhvjI8BMTnd5Go+2xsCmr jlIEq8Bi29gCcfQUvNiClevi13ifmnnOwE0ETNwDbgEIALWGNJHRAhpd0A4vtd3G0oRqMBcM FGThQr3qORmEBTPPEomTdBaHcn+Xl+3YUvTBD/67/mutWBwgp2R5gQOSqcM7axvgMSHbKqBL 9sd1LsLw0UT2O5AYxv3EwzhG84pwRg3XcUqvWA4lA8tIj/1q4Jzi5qOkg1zxq4W9qr9oiYK5 bBR638JUvr3eHMaz/Nz+sDVFgwHmXZj3M6aE5Ce9reCGbvrae7H5D5PPvtT3r22X8SqfVAiO TFKedCf/6jbSOedPN931FJQYopj9P6b3m0nI3ZiCDVSqeyOAIBLzm+RBUIU3brzoxDhYR8pz CJc2sK8l6YjqivPakrD86bFDff8AEQEAAcLAXwQYAQIACQUCTNwDbgIbDAAKCRCVx8DNpHPK 1+iQB/99aqNtez9ZTBWELj269La8ntuRx6gCpzfPXfn6SDIfTItDxTh1hrdRVP5QNGGF5wus N4EMwXouskva1hbFX3Pv72csYSxxEJXjW16oV8WK4KjKXoskLg2RyRP4uXqL7Mp2ezNtVY5F 9nu3fj4ydpHCSaqKy5xd70A8D50PfZsFgkrsa5gdQhPiGGEdxhq/XSeAAnZ4uVLJKarH+mj5 MEhgZPEBWkGrbDZpezl9qbFcUem/uT9x8FYT/JIztMVh9qDcdP5tzANW5J7nvgXjska+VFGY ryZK4SPDczh74mn6GI/+RBi7OUzXXPgpPBrhS5FByjwCqjjsSpTjTds+NGIY Organization: Sentex Communications Message-ID: <7685f996-c1b8-e11b-aaf6-b59c001ce226@sentex.net> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 16:41:47 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.4.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 483SjC2b9Pz3M9D X-Spamd-Bar: -- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of mike@sentex.net designates 2607:f3e0:0:3::19 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=mike@sentex.net X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-2.71 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[3]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ptr]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; HFILTER_HELO_IP_A(1.00)[pyroxene2a.sentex.ca]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[sentex.net]; HAS_ORG_HEADER(0.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; HFILTER_HELO_NORES_A_OR_MX(0.30)[pyroxene2a.sentex.ca]; IP_SCORE(-1.71)[ipnet: 2607:f3e0::/32(-4.93), asn: 11647(-3.54), country: CA(-0.09)]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:11647, ipnet:2607:f3e0::/32, country:CA]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2] X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 16:41:52 -0000 On 1/23/2020 1:40 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > first - we have DIRHASH option and i have it enabled. > second - it is not just a problem of huge directory but both huge > directory and large maxvnodes settings. > > Large directories works fast when kern.maxvnodes is small and there is > enough dirhash_maxmem. > > it's clearly an error somewhere. Dont know about the vnodes adjustment, and its probably not related. But on our largish mail servers, we need to change the defaults in nsswitch as ls takes forever on large directories otherwise. --- /usr/src/etc/nsswitch.conf  2019-07-10 14:46:40.871619000 -0400 +++ /etc/nsswitch.conf  2016-01-27 14:21:30.400226032 -0500 @@ -1,13 +1,12 @@  #  # nsswitch.conf(5) - name service switch configuration file -# $FreeBSD: stable/11/etc/nsswitch.conf 301711 2016-06-09 01:28:44Z markj $ +# $FreeBSD: src/etc/nsswitch.conf,v 1.1.10.1 2009/08/03 08:13:06 kensmith Exp $  # -group: compat +group: files  group_compat: nis  hosts: files dns -netgroup: compat  networks: files -passwd: compat +passwd: files  passwd_compat: nis  shells: files  services: compat     ---Mike