2012/8/13 Daniel Troeder <dan...@admin-box.com>
> On 13.08.2012 15:16, Michael Hampicke wrote: > > - about 20GB > > - 100.000 directories > > - about 2 million files > > > > The system has 2x Intel Xon Quad-cores (Nehalem), 16GB of RAM and two > > 10.000rpm hard drives running a RAID1. > 1st thought: switch to SSDs > 2nd thought: maybe lots of writes? -> get a SSD for the fs metadata > 3rd thought: purging old files with "find"? your cache system should > have some kind of DB that holds that information. > > 1: SSDs are not possible atm. The machine is in a data center abroad. 2: Writes are not that much of a problem at this time. 3: Well, it's a 3rd party application that - in theory - should take care of removing old files. Sadly, it does not work as it's supposed to be, While time passes the number of orphans grow :(
