Hi, All: I used to post this question before, but have not received any comments yet. Please allow me post it again. I have a subdirectory containing more than 30,000 small files on a SAN storage (GFS1+DLM, RAID10). No user application knows the existence of the subdirectory. In other words, the subdirectory is free of accessing. However, it took ages to list the subdirectory on an absolute idle cluster node. See below: # time ls -la | wc -l 31767 real 3m5.249s user 0m0.628s sys 0m5.137s There are about 3 minutes spent on somewhere. Does anyone have any clue what the system was waiting for? Thanks for your time and wish to see your valuable comments soon. Jas ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster