Areca Raid 6 ARC-1231 Raid 6 Slow LS Listing Performance on large directory

[Mike Tancsa]

At 01:32 PM 6/11/2008, Paul wrote:

>Any ideas why it takes so long for this on Freebsd 7.0 stable?
>
>The partition this folder is on it /dev/da0s1f  with a total size of 
>1.7T  and a usage of  63G
>
>Any suggestions or help on this would be greatly appreciated.

Couple of things to check

In /etc/nsswitch.conf try changing to

group: files
passwd: files

and check to make sure
vfs.ufs.dirhash_maxmem is > than vfs.ufs.dirhash_mem.  If 
vfs.ufs.dirhash_mem is hit the max, increase the maxmem value

         ---Mike