Re: stat very inefficient

[Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 05:14:14PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:

> 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.

On an old crappy ia32 machine:

    cw@taniwha:~/wk/linux/cw-current$ time find . -noleaf | wc
      42372   42372 1549653

    real    0m0.188s
    user    0m0.042s
    sys     0m0.146s

that 0.2s to make almost 50K stat64 calls (if you strace and grep you
can see that count).

Since I have to do something with that data (ie. build a kernel) and
that's *probably* going to take many seconds, even making the stat
overhead 0 wouldn't put much of dent into the overall time.

What am I missing?


  --cw