[plug] evil performance on large directories.

[Nick Bannon]

On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 03:58:49PM +0800, Shayne O'Neill wrote:
> Appletalk is uselesss. ls on the server is useless (a few minutes to
> return on large directories). etc.
> 
> ext3. by large directory I mean 3-400 files.
[...]

Oh, that's different, we were thinking 3-40000 files!

Disc errors on the server making it retry? (is anything showing up at
the end of dmesg?)

Are there links to automounted network filesystems that are geting
looked up, failing and timing out somehow?

Could you save a copy of "ls -ifl" for us to see?

Nick.

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