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Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 17:14:14 -0700
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: stat very inefficient
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On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 17:08:37 -0700
Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org> 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.