Re: stat very inefficient

[Nigel Rantor]

David S. Miller wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 17:08:37 -0700
> Chris Wedgwood <cw@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> > Just How bad is it for you?  I just tested stat on my crapbox and for
> > a short path 1M stats takes 0.5s and for a longer path (30 bytes or
> > so) 2.8s.
>
>
> Run "time find . -type f" on the kernel tree, both before and
> after removing the third unnecessary copy.  Many machines sit all
> day and stat files.

P2 350MHz 256Mb RAM circa 1998

bash$ time find . -type f

gives

real    0m16.142s
user    0m0.432s
sys     0m2.893s

I'd be interested to see what machine you have that takes all day.

  N
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