Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Feb 2000 07:54:24 -0600 (CST) | From | Andrew McNabb <> | Subject | Re: very large directories |
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Disk operations are always slower if the disk is busy to begin with.
On 29 Feb 2000 nbecker@fred.net wrote:
> A coworker has an application that produces 10's of thousands of small > files. It seems the performance of even a simple operation, such as > 'rm -rf' or find | xargs rm is very very slow. > > What are the mechanisms that limit performance? Is it the type of > data structure used to represent directories? > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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