deleting 2TB lots of files with delaylog: sync helps?

[Stan Hoeppner]

Dave Chinner put forth on 8/31/2010 7:06 PM:

> You're probably CPU bound, not IO bound.

7200 rpm is the highest spindle speed for 2TB drives--5400 is most
common.  None of them are going to do much over 200 random seeks/second,
if that.  That's 400 tops for two drives.

Using any modern Intel/AMD ~2 GHz CPU, you think he's CPU bound?
Apparently this "rm -rf" type operation is much more complex than I
previously believed.

-- 
Stan