On Tuesday 19 February 2008, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> Theodore Tso schrieb:
>
> (...)
>
> > The following ld_preload can help in some cases. Mutt has this hack
> > encoded in for maildir directories, which helps.
>
> It doesn't work very reliable for me.
>
> For some reason, it hangs for me sometimes (doesn't remove any files, rm
> -rf just stalls), or segfaults.
You can go the low-tech route (assuming your file names don't have spaces in
them)
find . -printf "%i %p\n" | sort -n | awk '{print $2}' | xargs rm
>
>
> As most of the ideas here in this thread assume (re)creating a new
> filesystem from scratch - would perhaps playing with
> /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio and /proc/sys/vm/dirty_background_ratio help a
> bit?
Probably not. You're seeking between all the inodes on the box, and probably
not bound by the memory used.
-chris
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