Long `rm` times.

Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Wed, 19 May 1999 15:23:30 -0400 (EDT)

With version 2.2.6, I do not have long file remove times. If some
are having such a problem, it might have to do with their disk drives
and/or drivers. I have some SCSI disks and a BusLogic controller.

Script started on Wed May 19 15:11:07 1999
# cp /dev/zero foo
cp: foo: No space left on device
# sync
# ls -la
total 373714
drwxrwxrwx 3 root root 1024 May 19 15:11 .
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 1024 May 19 12:08 ..
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 11 May 19 13:34 .X0-lock
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 1024 May 19 13:34 .X11-unix
-rw------- 1 root root 381181952 May 19 15:11 foo
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 May 19 15:11 typescript
# timer rm foo
Time = 4 second(s).
# exit
Script done on Wed May 19 15:12:34 1999

This shows that a 381,181,952 byte file was deleted in 4 seconds. That's
381,181,952/4 = 95,295,488 bytes/second.

Note that I synced the device after the copy. I think this shows that
the file-delete `problem` is a non-issue.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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