Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
Is it too disruptive to just reboot the system? It'd be nice to try aBoo! I sincerely doubt rebooting will help unless there is a kernel problem.
couple of other kernels, like a vanilla 2.4.26. Also, I'd ask on a redhat list and/or an ext2/3 list about any kernel tweaks to get better performance for lots of small files.
Are you using htree (indexed directories)[1]?
I would look into using the LD_PRELOAD library that sorts the directory entries based on physical layout on disk (sort by inode number).
Mike
[1] tune2fs -l /dev/XXX |grep index
