Hi, I observe that it often takes very long time (20s) to mkdir on an ext3 drive, especially the first directory. What could the reason be?
$ time mkdir hello real 0m22.325s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.132s If system time is less than a second, what is eating the other 22 seconds? This is an idle squeeze installation: $ uname -a Linux Squeeze 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Tue Mar 8 21:36:00 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux After that directory I made some more, and it was responsive as expected: $ time (touch one ; mkdir two; touch three) real 0m0.135s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.052s $ time mkdir five real 0m0.621s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.052s $ cd .. $ time mkdir one ; time mkdir two real 0m0.050s user 0m0.004s sys 0m0.048s real 0m0.040s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.040s This is on a 1.8 T ext3 mounted rw,noatime using LVM, and I have seen that with my old data drive, 500 GB ext3 without LVM as well. Any ideas? Hartmut -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201105191801.12315.hartmut.niem...@gmx.de
