[Lustre-discuss] small file performance

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 09:44 -0500, Aaron Knister wrote:
> For whatever reason, searching my lustre mount (ls -R or find),  
> compiling code and other operations involving lots of small files are  
> painfully slow. There is no load on the filesystem other than my  
> various tests. I've disabled lnet debugging. Just to give you an idea  
> of how slow it is-- a ./configure of this particular code on a local  
> filesystem takes less than a minute. On lustre it's been running for  
> five minutes and is hardly half way through. An untar on the local  
> filesystem takes .9 seconds while that same untar takes 12 seconds to  
> our lustre mount. Any ideas for improving this?

Perhaps bug 14010 is relevant.

b.

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