In response to Olivier Mueller :
>
> Yes, it is one of the best options. My initial goal was to delete all
> files older than N days by cron (find | xargs | rm, etc.), but if each
> cronjob takes 2 hours (and takes so much cpu time), it's probably not
> the best way.
>
> I'll make some more te
Thanks for your answer Bill! (and to Will as well),
Some more infos I gathered a few minutes ago:
[~/templates_c]$ date; du -s -m ; date
Wed May 6 13:35:15 CEST 2009
2652 .
Wed May 6 13:52:36 CEST 2009
[~/templates_c]$ date ; find . | wc -l ; date
Wed May 6 13:52:56 CEST 2009
30546
