Subject: Re: Deleting files
To: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
From: Pavel Cahyna <pcah8322@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
List: port-alpha
Date: 03/17/2003 18:20:37
> >
> > And it seems quite slow, even with mounting async...
>
> What you're almost certainly seeing is the "pseudosynchronous I/O"
> effect cause by either running out of vnodes or running out of metadata
> buffers. The first is easy to fix; use sysctl to bump kern.maxvnodes,
> a *lot*.
>
> The latter is harder, but unless you have a truly huge number of files
> and directories delete, you should not see it.
That's an interesting suggestion. I'll try it next time when I'll do
large copying.
Thanks Pavel