Hi, here is the story: we have a directory with 50K (number of ) files in it. The user does a 'ls' and I can see READDIR4. To get the complete listing a client need to send ~380 requests. Now user does yet another 'ls' in the same directory. The client sends a GETATTR on directorie's FH (actually two of GETATTRS - why?!!) and discovers that a directory didn't change and re-uses existing listing, BUT!!! for each file in the directory it sends a GETATTR to discover is the file's attributes are changed. For 50K files it's a 50K requests. I believe there is a way to make client smart and in some situations prefer READDIR over GETATTR. Tigran. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
