But why? Why does it matter if you are in the same dir or not when you glob?
On Mon, Dec 4, 2017, 20:34 Gabriel Forster
wrote:
> Ding ding ding! We have a winner! Thank you so much. That made a huge
> difference. It is now running ~20 seconds.
>
> The key is being in the same directory.
>
>
> O
Ding ding ding! We have a winner! Thank you so much. That made a huge
difference. It is now running ~20 seconds.
The key is being in the same directory.
On Monday, December 4, 2017 at 2:17:03 PM UTC-5, Patrick Smith wrote:
>
> Does it make a difference if you first change directory to
> /var/s
Does it make a difference if you first change directory to
/var/spool/directory, then glob * and unlink the resulting filenames,
without prepending the directory?
On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 11:05 AM, Gabriel Forster
wrote:
> Readdirnames wasn't much better. Now using globbing and syscall.Unlink
> wh
Readdirnames wasn't much better. Now using globbing and syscall.Unlink
which take ~1minute 30seconds. It is much better, but still a long way from
perl's sub-20 seconds.
package main
import (
"fmt"
"path/filepath"
"syscall"
)
func main() {
upperDirPattern := "/var/spool/di
On Tue, Dec 5, 2017, 7:13 AM Gabriel Forster
wrote:
> As far as I understand, that perl line is by far the fastest way to delete
> files in linux. We're talking over 500k files on hdd.
>
It may be the 500k stats that are killing you. From the looks of your code,
the stat seems unnecessary as yo
As far as I understand, that perl line is by far the fastest way to delete
files in linux. We're talking over 500k files on hdd.
On Monday, December 4, 2017 at 12:50:54 PM UTC-5, Gabriel Forster wrote:
>
> What takes 18 seconds in a perl command:
> perl -e 'for(<*>){((stat)[9]<(unlink))}'
>
> i
Gabriel - Thank you for reminding me that perl is a write-only language.
It's been a few years since I had to deal with it. How many files are we
talking about and on what media?
On Monday, December 4, 2017 at 12:50:54 PM UTC-5, Gabriel Forster wrote:
>
> What takes 18 seconds in a perl comman
