Well, it finally finished around 4 o'clock this morning. It seems like it spent 
the last day and a half just getting the index in order, etc - hardly any io to 
speak of going on.

Thanks,
Randy


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> In regard to: Re: [Networker] Slow Performance for large file system -...:
>
> > Thanks for the reminder. I had previously install the "trace" utility from
> Legato.
> > The save process is doing an "lstat" after "lstat" after "lstat" on each of
> the files, it appears, with some hex dumps thrown every so often.
> > Randy
>
> Ok, so it's stat'ing each inode to check the inode times, to see if the
> file needs to be backed up.
>
> Now what you'll need to determine is
>
> - is the interval from one lstat() to the next about the same as it is
> when performance is good (the start of a backup)?
>
> - what directory is it in? Unless you actually catch it changing
> directories, the easiest way to tell for non-shell processes is using
> something like `lsof' on the save process.
>
> - what does
>
> defragment -n -v
>
> report for that domain?
>
> Tim
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