From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 12 01:46:31 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 300CE1065679 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:46:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F8368FC2A for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:46:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (inchoate.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.30]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m5C1kNii083187 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:16:23 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:16:20 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <20080611173211.A899C1E9E@fep5.cogeco.net> <20080611200342.A53901DEF@fep1.cogeco.net> <200806112026.m5BKQaOB074653@lava.sentex.ca> In-Reply-To: <200806112026.m5BKQaOB074653@lava.sentex.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3634284.SzPfiIiOag"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200806121116.21657.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -3.977 () ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Paul Subject: Re: Areca Raid 6 ARC-1231 Raid 6 Slow LS Listing Performance on large directory X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:46:31 -0000 --nextPart3634284.SzPfiIiOag Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 04:04 PM 6/11/2008, Paul wrote: > >Changing from compat to files fixes the problem. > > > >It is now superfast when running ls -lh. > > Hi, > Not sure, but a more "proper" fix might be to look at the > nscd caching daemon. Take a look at nscd and nscd.conf. I havent used > it myself, but I seem to recall others suggesting this as a "fix" as > well. Why is 'compat' so slow? (ie what's the difference between it and file=20 anyway) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart3634284.SzPfiIiOag Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.8 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBIUH/t5ZPcIHs/zowRAkUrAJ9uqCqTgPoJJ6hv8WBu1eqNSRf2bwCgjSmG X7jjUsDRyNj3PtvXwzHGf/8= =er3k -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3634284.SzPfiIiOag--