Hi My work (as in what brings in money to buy things from) file-system is now "slow as hell". Last time this happened you guys told me that this was because I had millions of hardlinks and way too many files. Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/md0 815M 4.1M 811M 1% /recover2 I have only 4.1M files. Only 1% inodes "in use". The filesystem was filling up lately, but i've managed to create some free space. Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/md0 6.3T 5.3T 720G 89% /recover2 The question is: How do I get the filesystem to perform normally again? All mkdir calls are taking around 62 milliseconds: 14:57:02 mkdir("...ME_25c8e/", 0777) = 0 <0.062312> 14:57:02 mkdir("...ME_112ff/", 0777) = 0 <0.062658> 14:57:02 mkdir("...ME_183cf/", 0777) = 0 <0.062344> while on my workstation where i'm not supposed to be working with client-data I get: 14:58:18 mkdir("...ME_2a6c6/", 0777) = 0 <0.000033> 14:58:18 mkdir("...ME_2b3d9/", 0777) = 0 <0.000031> 14:58:18 mkdir("...ME_2c63f/", 0777) = 0 <0.000034> So, things on my big datastorage drive are about 2000 times slower than on my workstation. Roger. -- ** R.E.Wolff@xxxxxxxxxxxx ** http://www.BitWizard.nl/ ** +31-15-2600998 ** ** Delftechpark 26 2628 XH Delft, The Netherlands. KVK: 27239233 ** *-- BitWizard writes Linux device drivers for any device you may have! --* Q: It doesn't work. A: Look buddy, doesn't work is an ambiguous statement. Does it sit on the couch all day? Is it unemployed? Please be specific! Define 'it' and what it isn't doing. --------- Adapted from lxrbot FAQ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html