Re: Odd behavior of xfs with SCSI/Adaptec AIC7899

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xxxxxxxxx>]

At 21:20 13-3-2002 +0100, Qing Liu wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I known xfs is rather slow when deleting large number of files (above 
> 11,000 here). But it is rather surprising that it performs *much worse* on 
> a much
> better machine. The problem is same with a mono processor kernel on Box 1.
>
> Is there a known issue here ?
Try using 2.4.18 XFS CVS. This tree has the asynchronous delete path and 
that alone might give your delete speed a nice boost. I won't say this will 
fix your problem but it will make a difference.
Cheers

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Seth
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it was written and another for which it wasn't
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