Re: Odd behavior of xfs with SCSI/Adaptec AIC7899

[Austin Gonyou <austin@coremetrics.com>]

It's very odd that you have this problem. I've not seen it be that bad
ever. I deal with files between 2 and 8gb in size. 

On Thu, 2002-03-14 at 09:50, Seth Mos wrote:
> 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
> 
> --
> Seth
> Every program has two purposes one for which
> it was written and another for which it wasn't
> I use the last kind.
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