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Date:      Thu, 23 Jan 2020 14:12:54 +0100 (CET)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@puchar.net>
To:        Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>
Cc:        Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@puchar.net>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: slow directory operation on huge dirs
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.20.2001231411400.63433@puchar.net>
In-Reply-To: <cf4d3d5f-6c9e-81cf-f6a2-ade177b9f8ff@quip.cz>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.20.2001191930040.17538@puchar.net> <alpine.BSF.2.20.2001231245190.98419@puchar.net> <cf4d3d5f-6c9e-81cf-f6a2-ade177b9f8ff@quip.cz>

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>>> 
>> nobody have idea what's the problem?
>
> Is it "just slow" or is your disk too busy? (iostat)

no. disk is idle, system CPU load takes half of system (8 cores)!

>
> Can it be that pre-cacheing on huge directory makes disk too busy because 
> there is too much to read?
this part works fine. The problem begins where it's already cached.

To get the problem you need BOTH of:

- large maxvnodes like half million
- large directory (in order of 100000 files)





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