System briefly freezes every time when a very large UFS directory is filled with files

[Larry Maloney]

Could you organize the files into a hierarchy? 

/Larry
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> On Aug 18, 2015, at 12:41 PM, Yuri <yuri at rawbw.com> wrote:
> 
> I have one directory that has ~1.2M files on UFS system.
> Every time when the process that creates files there reaches a particular point (~0.9M files), system invariably freezes for ~10 seconds, after which it continues and process succeeds.
> 
> I know that this is quite an extreme number of files but, other than this problem, it is usable in this setup.
> 
> Maybe someone can think of some fix or the immediate reason of such freezes? This isn't a good problem to have, even in the view of an extremity of this situation.
> 
> Yuri
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