RHEL6 or 7: find very slow as compared with RHEL5 due to excessive newfstatat system calls
Issue
- When doing a find on a NFS with a lot of files it takes a long time. On the same filesystem mounted to a RHEL5.11 system it is much faster.
- "strace -c" on the find shows that "newfstatat" is called on average twice per file and I don't see this on the RHEL5 server.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 or 7
- kernels 2.6.32-358.el6 or above
- 'find' command to locate files ("-type f" option)
- Directories containing many thousands of files
- NFSv3
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