[Python-Dev] import too slow on NFS based systems

Thu Jun 21 12:33:37 CEST 2012

On 2012年6月21日 13:17:01 +0300
Daniel Braniss <danny at cs.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> Hi,
> when lib/python/site-packages/ is accessed via NFS, open/stat/access is very
> expensive/slow. 
>> A simple solution is to use an in memory directory search/hash, so I was
> wondering if this has been concidered in the past, if not, and I come
> with a working solution for Unix (at least Linux/Freebsd) will it be 
> concidered.

There is such a thing in Python 3.3, although some stat() calls are
still necessary to know whether the directory caches are fresh.
Can you give it a try and provide some feedback?
Regards
Antoine.