Re: [fuse-devel] FUSE seems to call getattr for directories more often than necessary

[Goswin v. B. <gos...@we...>]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 02:15:58PM -0700, Clint Olsen wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> I have FUSE working on a project, and now I'm debugging performance issues.
> Our server farm of which I have little/no control seems to have FUSE 2.7.4.
> I at least see libfuse.so.2.7.4 in /lib.
> 
> At any rate, I'm seeing getattr calls more than once for a directory entry,
> and it's odd, I think:
> 
> % ls -al /tmp/mnt/a/b          # /a/b is under FUSE
> 
> I get 4 getattr calls for /a/b and 3 for /a. Is that to be expected? I
> would have expected (as much as possible) that directory contents would be
> requested once. Is there any way to reduce/minimize this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Clint

Do you have caching enabled? What timeout do you return?

MfG
	Goswin