Re: Odd behavior of xfs with SCSI/Adaptec AIC7899

[Seth Mos <knuffie@xs4all.nl>]

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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