Slow to load large directories - any fix?

[candre23]

unRAID is frequently (but not always) slow to provide file lists for large directories.  My movies folder has about 13k files in it, and it can take anywhere from 2 sec to well over a minute to open the folder in Win7 or XBMC on my appleTVs.  This happens even if all the drives are already spinning.  It also happens with other folders with many files, regardless of file size or what drive the files are located on.  My network is wired gigabit (35-45MB/sec file transfers), so I don't think that's the issue.

 

Is there any way to speed up directory listing?  Is there a setting somewhere that is causing this?  Is there maybe some way to cache the directory structure so I don't have to wait a minute or more to open a large directory?

[bubbaQ]

Are you using Samba or NFS? With 13K files, I would expect it to be slow with Samba.

[Whaler_99]

You could check this out. A script Joe L. created called cache_dirs. Keeps them in memory. Might help.

 

Shawn

 

[PeterB]

Are you sure that it is just the file listing which is taking the time?  If so, the cache_dirs will help.

 

However, if your directory view is displaying thumbnails, then it will take a long time because the content of each file is being read.