On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 14:27 -0700, Ja S wrote: > 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 Hi Jas, I believe the answer to your question is in the FAQ: http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/wiki/FAQ/GFS#gfs_slow Regards, Bob Peterson Red Hat Clustering & GFS -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
