Re: Long `rm` times.

Nicholas J. Leon (nicholas@binary9.net)
Fri, 21 May 1999 13:31:22 -0400

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| With version 2.2.6, I do not have long file remove times. If some
| are having such a problem, it might have to do with their disk drives
| and/or drivers. I have some SCSI disks and a BusLogic controller.
| # timer rm foo
| Time = 4 second(s).

| Note that I synced the device after the copy. I think this shows that
| the file-delete `problem` is a non-issue.

Try rebooting and then deleting the file. I did so and it took around
30seconds to delete a 1GB file..... if I delete it IMMEDIATELY after
creating it (including "sync") it takes (as youve shown) around 5 seconds or
so.

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