>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew McNabb <amcnabb@argus-systems.com> writes:
Andrew> Disk operations are always slower if the disk is busy to begin with.
Andrew> 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?
Sorry, I wasn't very clear. I mean that after the program is done
creating all these files, that any operations on the files are
extremely slow. At this time the disk activity has stopped.
I suspect the answer is that the data structures used to represent
directories are not well suited to efficient operations on extremely
large directories, but I was just curious.
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