Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 15:54:38 +0200 From: Nicolas Gilles <nicolas.gilles@gmail.com> To: "Eugene M. Zheganin" <emz@norma.perm.ru> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: zfs, a directory that used to hold lot of files and listing pause Message-ID: <CANwv7WsKQy9pWOyvbFscB0FviNtVw%2BNgn7EMyNv-kppUp1cxfQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4d9269af-ed64-bb73-eb7f-98a3f5ffd5a2@norma.perm.ru> References: <4d9269af-ed64-bb73-eb7f-98a3f5ffd5a2@norma.perm.ru>
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On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 3:47 PM, Eugene M. Zheganin <emz@norma.perm.ru> wrote: > Hi. > > I have FreeBSD 10.2-STABLE r289293 (but I have observed this situation on > different releases) and a zfs. I also have one directory that used to have a > lot of (tens of thousands) files. I surely takes a lot of time to get a > listing of it. But now I have 2 files and a couple of dozens directories in > it (I sorted files into directories). Surprisingly, there's still a lag > between "ls" and an output: > > > ===Cut=== > > # /usr/bin/time -h ls > .recycle 2016-01 2016-04 2016-07 2016-10 > sort-files.sh > 2014 2016-02 2016-05 2016-08 ktrace.out > sort-months.sh > 2015 2016-03 2016-06 2016-09 old > sounds > 5.75s real 0.00s user 0.02s sys Looks like it's not taking up any processing time, so my guess is the lag probably comes from stalled I/O ... bad disk? Does a second "ls" immediately returned (ie. metadata has been cached) ? > > ===Cut=== > > > I've seen this situation before, on other servers, so it's not the first > time I encounter this. However, it's not 100% reproducible (I mean, if I > fill the directory with dozens of thousands of files, I will not certainly > get this lag after the deletion). > > Has anyone seen this and does anyone know how to resolve this ? It's not > critical issue, but it makes thing uncomfortable here. One method I'm aware > of: you can move the contents of this directory to some other place, then > delete it and create again. But it's kind of a nasty workaround. > > > Thanks. > > Eugene. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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