If you can't move the whole directory, try:
mkdir /tmp2
mv /tmp/{*,.??*} /tmp2
(restart the application)
rm -rf /tmp2/* /tmp2/.??*
(it depends, of course, on the two directories being on the same partition).
That approach especially works if the bulk of your files are in sub-directories You'll only be doing work on the inodes directly in the main directory, and then you can take your time deleting the subdirectories from /tmp2 while your app runs.
I'm looking for clues about speeding up unlink performance. I have an ext3 file system (well, across several machines) that have a temp directory. The application needs to clean up the temp directory before the next run of the application begins and the engineers want to clean out this temp directory "quickly".
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Stephen Samuel http://www.bcgreen.com
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