Hi Marcus, > To fix the symptom rather than the cause, you could try putting it on > a ReiserFS partition. ReiserFS small file performance is pretty scary, > deleting 10k (or even 100x that) files would typically take only a > fraction of a second.
Thanks for your suggestion. Unfortunately, this will not be possible since the server is a managed server (1&1) and I cannot do anything like this. So I am afraid I need to fix the cause. Thanks anyway and best regards, Ralf