Re: stat(2) performance

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%bec.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 09:31:48PM +0100, Robert Swindells wrote:
> 
> Doing a 'cvs update' feels really slow
> 
> Running it under ktrace(1) shows it doing a stat(2) for every metadata
> file in the tree. The machine sounds like it is hitting the disk for
> every one. Is there any kind of cache for the attribute information
> that stat needs ?
> 
> This is on a ffs filesystem mounted log,noatime.

Raise kern.maxvnodes?

Joerg