Re: reading an empty directory after reboot is very slow
On Tue, Apr 14, 2015, at 13:11, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Oh! I was unaware of the e2fsck -D option. Good deal!
I didn't recall it existed either, or I'd have mentioned it much earlier in the thread... but I noticed it in the manpage while doing some research due to my participation on this thread. It was time well spent!
> I also like tmpfs for /tmp for simple systems. But it isn't a general
> purpose solution for everyone. There are many cases such as when /tmp
> is used as a large file dropbox that it doesn't work to use a limited
> size tmpfs.
Yeah, that's a bad habit to have as it slows down way too many utilities (lots of stuff benefit for extremely lightweight ultra-fast tmpfs in /tmp and $TMPDIR, from "sort" to gcc without -pipe), but it is indeed widespread.
The "persistent dumping ground" lives in /var/tmp, it is not supposed to be in /tmp or ${TMPDIR}. But old habits are hard to change.
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
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