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Hi, I have come across something similar. We had a large directory (several 10s of thousand files) stored on a large Linux box which was migrated to a faster, but smaller memory (256 GiB -> 12 GiB) box. The Windows users recorded unacceptable access times and ultimately we had to: 1) Break the large directory into several smaller ones, and 2) Move to a larger memory (128 Gib) machine.