Re: stat very inefficient

[David S. Miller]

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.
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