Re: XFS lstat() _very_ slow on SMP

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed May 18 2005 - 09:31:16 EST


On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 06:25:06PM +0200, Jan Kasprzak wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a big XFS volume on my fileserver, and I have noticed that
> making an incremental backup of this volume is _very_ slow. The incremental
> backup essentially checks mtime of all files on this volume, and it
> takes ~4ms of _system_ time (i.e. no iowait or what) to do a lstat().

Thanks a lot for the report, I'll investigate what's going on once I get
a little time. (Early next week I hope)

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