[jira] [Created] (VFS-698) SFTP file attributes are fetched multiple times leading to very slow directory listing

["krishnan (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

krishnan created VFS-698:
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             Summary: SFTP file attributes are fetched multiple times leading to very slow directory listing
                 Key: VFS-698
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VFS-698
             Project: Commons VFS
          Issue Type: Bug
    Affects Versions: 2.3
            Reporter: krishnan


getChildren() applied on SftpFileObject is very slow compared to JSCH implementation since the SftpATTRS which is readily available for the children after an "ls" call is again fetched for each child file since they are independently resolved. So if a directory contains 10 files, it results in 1 (ls) + 10 (stat) calls to server.

For a folder with 100 files (AWS), it took about 35 secs instead of 1.5 secs to  getChildren().

 

*doListChildrenResolved:*

{{final FileObject fo = getFileSystem().resolveFile(getFileSystem().getFileSystemManager()}}
{{ .resolveName(getName(), UriParser.encode(name), NameScope.CHILD));}}

{{{color:#FF0000}((SftpFileObject) FileObjectUtils.getAbstractFileObject(fo)).setStat(stat.getAttrs());{color}}}

 

The resolveFile call, creates a SftpFileObject and calls its resolve method, which results in getting the (stats) SftpATTRS for each child file. This stat is already available as part of the 'ls' call we made. The setStat call above (highlighted is red) is redundant, since stat for each child file is already fetched one at a time.

The solution would be to avoid getting the stat for each child file after an 'ls' call. May be, the framework makes it difficult to do this easily.

 

 



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