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Subject: Re: Areca Raid 6 ARC-1231 Raid 6 Slow LS Listing Performance
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At 02:11 PM 11/06/2008, Mike Tancsa wrote:

>>Any ideas why it takes so long for this on Freebsd 7.0 stable?
>>
>>The partition this folder is on it /dev/da0s1f  with a total size 
>>of 1.7T  and a usage of  63G
>>
>>Any suggestions or help on this would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Couple of things to check
>
>In /etc/nsswitch.conf try changing to
>
>group: files
>passwd: files
>
>and check to make sure
>vfs.ufs.dirhash_maxmem is > than vfs.ufs.dirhash_mem.  If 
>vfs.ufs.dirhash_mem is hit the max, increase the maxmem value
>
>         ---Mike


Thanks a lot for the quick reply.

Changing from compat to files fixes the problem.

It is now superfast when running ls -lh.

Thanks again!

Cheers

Paul