Re: unlink performance

[Ryan Dooley <rd powerset com>]

Title: Re: unlink performance

On 8/16/07 7:10 AM, "Stephen Samuel" <darkonc gmail com> wrote:

> I think that the mv / mkdir is going to be your best move...
> If you can't move the whole directory, try:
>
>
> mkdir /tmp2
> mv /tmp/{*,.??*} /tmp2
> (restart the application)
> rm -rf /tmp2/* /tmp2/.??* 
>  
> (it depends, of course, on the two directories being on the same partition).
>
> That approach especially works if the bulk of your files are in sub-directories  You'll only be doing work on the inodes directly in the main directory, and then you can take your time deleting the subdirectories from /tmp2 while your app runs. 

I’ll give that a shot and see what happens.  Thanks!

Cheers,
Ryan