From: Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>
To: Morten Welinder <mwelinder@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Deleting large files
Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 11:19:06 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080508081906.GY3700@mea-ext.zmailer.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <118833cc0805071249w36145eb6g7ed5c18d9fdf6fce@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 03:49:30PM -0400, Morten Welinder wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> deleting large files, say on the order of 4.6GB, takes approximately forever.
> Why is that? Well, it is because a lot of things need to take place to free
> the formerly used space, but my real question is "why does the unlink caller
> have to wait for it?"
This very question has troubled SQUID developers. Whatever the system, unlink()
that really does free diskspace does so with unbound timelimit and in services
where one millisecond is long wait time, the solution has been to run separate
subprocess that actually does the unlinks.
Squid is not threaded software, and it was created long ago when threads were
rare and implementations were different in subtle details --> no threads at all.
> Morten
/Matti Aarnio
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-08 8:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-07 19:49 Morten Welinder
2008-05-07 20:10 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-05-07 20:17 ` Xavier Bestel
2008-05-07 20:48 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-05-07 22:34 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2008-05-07 23:14 ` Morten Welinder
2008-05-08 23:01 ` Alan Cox
2008-05-11 10:30 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-05-11 16:38 ` Enrico Weigelt
2008-05-20 14:33 ` Pavel Machek
2008-05-08 8:19 ` Matti Aarnio [this message]
2008-05-11 11:16 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-11 16:42 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-05-08 17:29 ` Christian Kujau
[not found] ` <118833cc0805081110u7aad3921v3a1ec4187acc4ef4@mail.gmail.com>
2008-05-08 18:54 ` Christian Kujau
2008-05-17 12:15 ` Pavel Machek
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