Stomp - there is no stat command on vanilla SunOS. AFAIK. Since Oracle took over the Solaris freeware site died as well.

I think the OP also has another problem - Solaris 10 file systems (not ZFS) and earlier
all had a problem. If there are large numbers of files in a single directory, some file-related commands, notable is ls, bog down. A lot.

We had a directory with >30K small files in it. I fixed the performance problems by
moving files off the primary directory every day in a cron job. But still kept on the same file system. With about 5000 files performance was acceptable.

alexcol - please post the the output of a command the gives the physical size in bytes of the exact directory with the problem.

Since I do not know the name of the directory, here is an example, note the lowercase "d" in the command:

Code:

ls -ld  /path/to/directory

Please post the result so we can help

And if you happen to have too many individual files, regardless of size, on a file system then you can run out of inodes as well. This is pretty hard to do, but if the filesystem was created with unusual parameters this happens.
To see used inodes, try:

Code:

df -i /path/to/mountpoint

where mountpoint is the place in the file system where you interesting directory is mounted