Findlargedir is a tool written to help quickly identify “black hole” directories on any filesystem having more than 100k entries in a single flat structure. When a directory has many entries (directories or files), getting a directory listing gets slower and slower, impacting the performance of all processes attempting to get a directory listing. Processes reading large directory inodes get frozen while doing so and end up in the uninterruptible sleep (“D” state) for longer … More →

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