Eric Searcy wrote: > Arjan Schrijver wrote: > >> Hi list, >> Is anyone experiencing this same problem? >> <snip> after the backup we >> start dirvish-expire, which takes about 6 hours, and sometimes even up >> to 10 hours or more. >> Is this normal? It seems to me that analyzing directory names and then >> deleting them shouldn't take this amount of time. >> Can anyone explain this to me? >> > > No, it isn't normal. Another idea is that if you have directories that > have *lots* of files (thousands) not nested in other directories and are > using ext3 without -O dir_index, running rm's can take a long time > because it iterates at O(n) time.
Switching from reiserfs to ext3 gave me a BIG performance boost in dirvish-expire. Reiserfs is VERY SLOW to expire files in my experience. (yet another reason for me to avoid using reiserfs with Dirvish) -- Richard _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
