On 2015-04-13 14:45:25 +0200, Loïc Grenié wrote: > 2015-04-13 14:39 GMT+02:00 Vincent Lefevre <vinc...@vinc17.net>: > > The problem is that this operation is (always?) very slow: something > > like 100 seconds (1 minute and 40 seconds). It has been reproducible > > for several months. The logs show nothing during this operation. > > > > Any idea? > > Maybe the directory is very large (even though its empty). Try > > ls -ld tmp. > > and see if the file "tmp" is large.
Thanks! I didn't know that (I thought that the file system would automatically "optimize" directories when files are removed, so I've never looked closely at their size). Indeed: ypig:~/eftests> ls -ld tmp drwxr-xr-x 2 vlefevre vlefevre 29655040 2015-04-13 15:25:55 tmp/ -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150413134103.ga9...@ypig.lip.ens-lyon.fr
