On 6/19/12 7:20 PM, Norbert Preining wrote: > Dear all > > (please Cc) > > I recently had to track down a big delay in one of my Debian packages, > and it turned out that it seems to be due to ext4 being *horribly* > slow on dealing with symlinks. > > On my system, if I create a directory with 8000 symlinks (that is > a real case of a font package shipping special encoded files) and > the symlink targets are "far away" (long names), then, after > a reboot a simply > ls -l > in this directory took 1m20sec. While on second run it is down to 2secs > (nice caching). As Ted said, the targets might be far-flung. If you do /bin/ls -l instead of maybe an aliased ls which stats everything to make pretty colors, is that faster? -Eric -- 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
