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SubjectRe: unlink aggressively robs resources
FromAndreas Schwab <>
Date05 Jun 1998 11:09:17 +0200
Dean Gaudet <dgaudet-list-linux-kernel@arctic.org> writes:

|> I've noticed this with 2.1.84, .86, and .103 kernels.  When you unlink
|> large files on an ext2 disk, the machine becomes extremely choppy.

Unlinking large files is expensive because it needs to read in every
indirection block to find out which blocks to release.

-- 
Andreas Schwab                                      "And now for something
schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de              completely different"
schwab@gnu.org

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