NFS performance problem

I've found that 'chmod -R' and 'chgrp -R' can get bogged down on my
IRIX
server.

After a few thousand chmods, the server gets loaded down and chmod
will
fail.

Perhaps a 'find . -print -exec chmod 777 {} \;' would be faster?
(note:
pseudo-code and 777 permissions)


"Oldrich Bartunek" <olda@cvut.cz> wrote in message
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> Hello,
> we just setting up nfa for unix: i changing ownership and filemode
for
whole
> exported filesystem (1TB NSS aprox. 4M files)
> It is done by shell script from unix side (chmod -R $1 and chgrp -R
$2).
> Operation running for 2nd day (!) and now doing letter "k". Server
is
> NW6SP3NSS3b, 2x2.5GHz, 2GB RAM, GBit ethernet and reporting cpu0:
95%
> utilization in nfsserv xx threads, cpu1: 2%). NSS cachebalance is
80%,
> read/write performace is good (about 20MB/s by ftp from my linux
> workstation).
> Any ideas?
> Olda
>
>