From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 29 22:30:21 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07AF616A4F5 for ; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 22:30:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 809E943D54 for ; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 22:30:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) i3U5UI0K039825 for ; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 22:30:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i3U5UIYF039824; Thu, 29 Apr 2004 22:30:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 22:30:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200404300530.i3U5UIYF039824@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org From: Tim Kientzle Subject: Re: misc/42167: du uses linear search for duplicate inodes - very slow! X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Tim Kientzle List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 05:30:21 -0000 The following reply was made to PR misc/42167; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Tim Kientzle To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org, mvh@ix.netcom.com Cc: Subject: Re: misc/42167: du uses linear search for duplicate inodes - very slow! Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 22:27:02 -0700 I just ran across this problem myself. As it happens, I recently had to address this exact problem in bsdtar, and therefore have some very efficient code (a self-tuning hash table) for handling this problem. I'll look into adapting it for du.