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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Find command takes too long to complete Post 302924564 by jim mcnamara on Monday 10th of November 2014 04:13:34 PM
Old 11-10-2014
Some points:

If "myfolder" is a directory try limiting the search with -type d

I suspect the websphere directory has loads of files and subdirectories. Some filesystems like ufs lose performance as the number of files in a directory grows in size.

The only other possibility I can think of is your inode cache is horribly small.
Code:
echo ufs_ninode/D |mdb -k

run as root in the global zone will show what the ufs inode cache is set to.
I cannot recommend a good value offhand, but if it less than 129797 which is the default with 2048 set as maxusers, then it needs help.
For inode hit rate see if the sar -g column %ufs_ipf shows several non-zero entries in a 2 hour period. If so, bump ufs_ninode by 50%.

Code:
# sar -g

SunOS sun-m4k-02 5.10 Generic_144488-14 sun4u    11/10/2014

00:00:01  pgout/s ppgout/s pgfree/s pgscan/s %ugs_ipf


Of all of these I vote for the "too many files" in a directory problem.
 

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dir_ufs(4)							   File Formats 							dir_ufs(4)

NAME
dir_ufs, dir - format of ufs directories SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/param.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/fs/ufs_fsdir.h> DESCRIPTION
A directory consists of some number of blocks of DIRBLKSIZ bytes, where DIRBLKSIZ is chosen such that it can be transferred to disk in a single atomic operation, for example, 512 bytes on most machines. Each DIRBLKSIZ-byte block contains some number of directory entry structures, which are of variable length. Each directory entry has a struct direct at the front of it, containing its inode number, the length of the entry, and the length of the name contained in the entry. These entries are followed by the name padded to a 4 byte boundary with null bytes. All names are guaranteed null-terminated. The maximum length of a name in a directory is MAXNAMLEN. #define DIRBLKSIZ DEV_BSIZE #define MAXNAMLEN 256 struct direct { ulong_t d_ino; /* inode number of entry */ ushort_t d_reclen; /* length of this record */ ushort_t d_namlen; /* length of string in d_name */ char d_name[MAXNAMLEN + 1]; /* maximum name length */ }; ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for a description of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Unstable | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
attributes(5), ufs(7FS) SunOS 5.10 16 Apr 2003 dir_ufs(4)
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