Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: unlink aggressively robs resources | From | Andreas Schwab <> | Date | 05 Jun 1998 11:09:17 +0200 |
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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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