Severe VFS Performance Issues 2.6 with > 95000 directory entries

From: Jeff V. Merkey
Date: Sun Nov 13 2005 - 00:33:35 EST



The subject line speaks for itself. This is using standard VFS readdir and lookup calls through the VFSwith ftp. Very poor. It appears dcache related since longer file names proportionately take longer based on the size of the name. My lookup routines use static pinned tables in memory, and are very fast. VFS peformance non-ftp are reasonable, but still have problems with the number of entries
in a directory gets above 50,000.

Jeff
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