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Date:      Fri, 08 May 2009 07:35:16 -0400
From:      "Brian A. Seklecki" <seklecki@noc.cfi.pgh.pa.us>
To:        Olivier Mueller <om-lists-bsd@omx.ch>
Cc:        freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: filesystem: 12h to delete 32GB of data
Message-ID:  <1241782516.2053.10.camel@soundwave.ws.pitbpa0.priv.collaborativefusion.com>
In-Reply-To: <1241610888.16418.64.camel@ompc.insign.local>
References:  <1241610888.16418.64.camel@ompc.insign.local>

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On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 13:54 +0200, Olivier Mueller wrote:
> -> it took about 12 hours to delete these 30GB of files and
> sub-directories (smarty cache files: many small files in many dirs).

Haven't you ever had the pleasure of running Sendmail on Solaris? :)

Move this data store to a separate partition.  When it comes time to
burn the queue, stop the service, unmount the partition, newfs it,
remount, restart svc.

Long live Pisces v2.  ~BAS




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