On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Emmanuel Florac <eflorac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Le Mon, 5 Jul 2010 17:27:44 +0300 > Andrei Deftu <andreideftu@xxxxxxxxx> écrivait: > >> As many people have pointed out, xfs is very slow when deleting a >> large number of files. Does anyone has a technical answer to this >> problem? Also, I am interested to know if there is a way to >> temporarily speed up the delete process, regardless of all the other >> parameters. > > Using the "nobarrier" mount option (when applicable/advisable) > considerably speeds up metadata operations. > Another possibility is to use a ramdisk (or /dev/null) as a log device > though it could be... dangerous :) Thanks. Yes, I know about these tricks like 'nobarrier' option, separate partition for metadata log, increased size for the log, more log buffers or atime disabled. But I was interested more in what is the real cause of this slowness. Andrei _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
