also sprach Thomas Kaehn <tk@westend.com> [2007.04.04.1356 +0200]: > I've got a strange problem on one machine using XFS. Deleting large > directories (containing about 100000 files, 20k each) using "rm -rf" > lasts nearly as long as creating the the files using a bash loop. It's a know fact that XFS has really bad unlink() performance. If you can't deal with it, use another filesystem. There is probably nothing wrong with your system. > Has anyone realized similar effects? On a different server (Dell > 6850) the directory can be deleted within seconds. What could be > the reason for the huge difference in delete performance? Also XFS? -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list! .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org> : :' : proud Debian developer, author, administrator, and user `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck - http://debiansystem.info `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems "for her, the dashed lines on the freeway were like grains of sand slipping, through an hour glass, ticking away the seconds, the minutes, and the hours of her life. if she got home a few minutes early on any given afternoon, it gave her a thrill as if she had stolen a little something back from death." -- mc 900 ft jesus (http://www.theendoftheworld.org/900/spider1.shtml)
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