>>> Tom Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > it's difficult to tell how much > physical I/O results from the create or unlink syscalls. It might be > interesting to make a test program that just creates 4000 files We use xfs with noatime for our databases. In a fresh subdirectory of such a mountpoint: for ((i=0 ; i < 4000 ; ++i)) ; do touch $i ; done causes 44,969 block writes > and then > removes them again, and see what sort of load you see from that. rm * causes 26,820 block writes That would make the file creation and unlink just under half the load. -Kevin
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