Re: xfs and delete of small files

[Steve Lord <lord@sgi.com>]

On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 00:02, Sipos Ferenc wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> When will the slow delete problem be fixed in xfs? Yesterday, I deleted
> 16000 emails in evolution, and it took more than 20 minutes. It's not a
> slow machine, (athlon 500 with 256 megs of ram), so it's clearly the
> problem of xfs. Thx.
> 
> Paco
> 

You don't say which kernel you are running - things should be better
in the current cvs tree. And please do not assume that all the over
head of deleting email in evolution is the filesystem underneath it!

I realize you do not have the mail anymore, but I think you will find
evolution did a lot of its own running around to delete that email.

Get a current cvs tree, and mount your filesystem with -o logbufs=4
this will help.

Steve

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