misc/112620: 'ls -l' is very slow or doesn't work at all

Sat May 12 14:30:06 UTC 2007

>Number:         112620
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       'ls -l' is very slow or doesn't work at all
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat May 12 14:30:04 GMT 2007
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Vyacheslav Silakov
>Release:        FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE
>Organization:
JSC Internet-Arkhangelsk
>Environment:
FreeBSD gw.inar.ru 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #3: Fri May 11 15:45:11 MSD 2007     seal at gw.inar.ru:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GW  i386

>Description:
Copyright (c) 1992-2007 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
        The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #3: Fri May 11 15:45:11 MSD 2007
    seal at gw.inar.ru:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GW
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Intel Pentium III (866.43-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x68a  Stepping = 10
  Features=0x387fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,PN,MMX,FXSR,SSE>
real memory  = 3221159936 (3071 MB)
avail memory = 3154182144 (3008 MB)
ACPI APIC Table: <INTEL  024B    >
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs
 cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID:  3
 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID:  0
ioapic0 <Version 1.1> irqs 0-15 on motherboard
ioapic1 <Version 1.1> irqs 16-31 on motherboard
kbd1 at kbdmux0
acpi0: <INTEL 024B> on motherboard
acpi0: Overriding SCI Interrupt from IRQ 9 to IRQ 31
acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
Timecounter "ACPI-safe" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x404-0x407 on acpi0
acpi_ec0: <Embedded Controller: GPE 0x4> port 0xca6,0xca7 on acpi0
cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
cpu1: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
acpi_button0: <Sleep Button> on acpi0
pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
pci0: <display, VGA> at device 2.0 (no driver attached)
fxp0: <Intel 82559 Pro/100 Ethernet> port 0x5400-0x543f mem 0xf8101000-0xf8101fff,0xf8000000-0xf80fffff irq 18 at device 3.0 on pci0
miibus0: <MII bus> on fxp0
inphy0: <i82555 10/100 media interface> on miibus0
inphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
fxp0: Ethernet address: 00:d0:b7:b7:d8:48
pcib1: <PCI-PCI bridge> at device 7.0 on pci0
pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1
asr0: <Adaptec Caching SCSI RAID> mem 0xfa000000-0xfbffffff irq 23 at device 7.1 on pci0
asr0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
asr0: ADAPTEC 2100S FW Rev. 3607, 1 channel, 256 CCBs, Protocol I2O
isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> port 0x580-0x58f at device 15.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
atapci0: <ServerWorks ROSB4 UDMA33 controller> port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x374-0x377,0x5440-0x544f at device 15.1 on pci0
ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0
ata2: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0
pcib2: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> on acpi0
pci2: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib2
acpi_tz0: <Thermal Zone> on acpi0
acpi_tz1: <Thermal Zone> on acpi0
acpi_tz2: <Thermal Zone> on acpi0
sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0
sio0: type 16550A
sio1: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on acpi0
sio1: type 16550A
ppc0: <ECP parallel printer port> port 0x378-0x37f,0x778-0x77f irq 7 drq 3 on acpi0
ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/8 bytes threshold
ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0
lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
fdc0: <floppy drive controller> port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0
fdc0: [FAST]
fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x60,0x64 irq 1 on acpi0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
pmtimer0 on isa0
orm0: <ISA Option ROMs> at iomem 0xc0000-0xc7fff,0xc8000-0xc97ff,0xc9800-0xcf7ff on isa0
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
IP Filter: v4.1.13 initialized.  Default = pass all, Logging = enabled
ipfw2 initialized, divert enabled, rule-based forwarding enabled, default to accept, logging limited to 100 packets/entry by default
acd0: CDROM <CDU5211/YYS2> at ata0-master PIO4
ses0 at asr0 bus 0 target 6 lun 0
ses0: <ESG-SHV SCA HSBP M14 0.03> Fixed Processor SCSI-2 device
ses0: SAF-TE Compliant Device
da0 at asr0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
da0: <ADAPTEC RAID-5 3607> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device
da0: Tagged Queueing Enabled
da0: 105009MB (215058432 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 13386C)
SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a

# df -hi
Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity iused   ifree %iused  Mounted on
/dev/da0s1a    496M     74M    382M    16%    1623   64167    2%   /
devfs          1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%       0       0  100%   /dev
/dev/da0s1d    2.9G    1.9G    780M    71%  226039  174343   56%   /usr
/dev/da0s1e     46G     28G     15G    65%   39429 6201849    1%   /var1
/dev/da0s1f     46G     27G     15G    65%  769148 5472130   12%   /var2
devfs          1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%       0       0  100%   /var1/var/named/dev

cd /usr/bin
ls -l
works fine.

'ls -l' in any big dir (with more than 100 files) in /var1 or /var2 doesn't work or works very slowly. btw, 'ls' without options works fine. Problem is appeared on this hardware after upgrade 4.11-STABLE to 6.2-STABLE.

>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
none
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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