very slow file deletion on an SSD

[joe.landman at gmail.com]

This is going to be a very fragmented file.  I am guessing that this is the reason for the long duration delete.   I'll do some more measurements before going to 3.4.x as per Eric's note.

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On May 27, 2012, at 9:15 AM, Krzysztof Adamski <k at adamski.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 09:34 +0200, Stefan Ring wrote:
>>>> [root at siFlash test]# xfs_bmap -vp 2.r.96.0
>>>> xfs_bmap: xfsctl(XFS_IOC_GETBMAPX) iflags=0x4 ["2.r.96.0"]: Cannot allocate memory
>>> 
>>> Try filefrag -v maybe, if your e2fsprogs is new enough.
>>> 
>>> Trying to remember, ENOMEM in bmap rings a bell... but this is possibly indicative of an extremely fragmented file.
>> 
>> True, I've had it happen with extremely fragmented files.
>> 
>> I've started playing around with discard myself only recently, but so
>> far I like the approach of using fstrim a lot better than the discard
>> option: http://xfs.org/index.php/FITRIM/discard
> 
> Check what blockdev --getra <md device> is set to. I used to have a
> several second deletes on large (4GB) fragmented files when ra was the
> default 256. Once I changed it to 4096 (best value will depend on your
> setup) the deletes became instant.
> 
> K
>