[PVFS-users] pvfs becoming unavailable/deathly slow

[Brian K. Jones]

Thanks to all -- knowing is at least 1/8th of the battle ;-)

brian.

On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 11:52, Nathan Poznick wrote:
> Thus spake Robert Latham:
> > Offhand, I can't think of ways to make linux ls a whole lot faster in
> > PVFS1.  You might see better performance with a newer version of
> > PVFS1, but linux ls on directories with a lot of files is just
> > something PVFS1 can't do so quickly.
> 
> He might want to upgrade to a newer version (Doesn't rocks ship with
> 1.6.0?).  1.6.3 is going to contain fixes which can make the ls times a
> lot less painful.  Also, passing the --enable-fast-stats option to
> configure can result in those ls's becoming a _lot_ faster when the
> files aren't opened by anyone.