Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Deleting large files | From | Xavier Bestel <> | Date | Wed, 07 May 2008 22:17:36 +0200 |
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Le mercredi 07 mai 2008 à 22:10 +0200, Jan Engelhardt a écrit : > > >I.e., could unlink do the directory changes and then hand off the rest of the > >task to a kernel thread? > > Say you had one realtime application running that would do lots of new > writes after the unlink finished. When the unlink is put into the > background, you interleave the unlink operation with new writes, > probably causing needless seeks and therefore not hitting the deadlines > anymore.
Why ? The writes are delayed, so could be the unlink operations.
Xav
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