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From: Al Boldi <a1426z@gawab.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Subject: Re: Massive slowdown when re-querying large nfs dir
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 19:03:12 +0300
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Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> How about tcpdumping and seeing what requests are flowing across the
> wire?  You might be able to figure out what's being done differently.

I think lookup is faster than getattr.


Thanks!

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Al