Messages in this thread | | | From | Mark Henson <> | Subject | RE: rm a_large_file takes too long under linux-2.2.1 (also unSTOP able) | Date | Thu, 11 Feb 1999 16:09:07 +1300 |
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It has been my experience too that often the deleting of large files takes a long time & is uninterruptable - but not always.
Today I was downloading some large ftp files 220MB, I had reason to kill the remote ftp session when I tried to remove the local files the prompt returned immediately - unusual, when I removed the second same behaviour.
then I looked at a process list the killed ftp sessions had some kind of lock on the file, when I killed these local sessions the files started to be deleted.
running 2.0.35, redhat 5.1
regards
mark
> -----Original Message----- > From: Fuzzy Fox [SMTP:fox@dallas.net] > Sent: Thursday, 11 February 1999 12:51 > To: Sang Kang > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu > Subject: Re: rm a_large_file takes too long under linux-2.2.1 (also > unSTOPable) > > Sang Kang <kernel@mocha.sarang.net> wrote: > > > > I made a large file "dd if=/dev/zero of=blah count=1000000" > > immediately followed by "rm blah". It took me about 20 second, and > > I couldn't even send STOP signal to the process (^Z). Is this a new > > feature or a side effect of a bugfix? > > It has always been this way, in my experience. In Linux, and other unix > operating systems. It takes time to collect up all the indirect blocks > and mark them free. > > You cannot STOP the process because it is not in an interruptible system > call (unlink). > > Why do you believe this behavior is new? > > -- > fox@dallas.net (Fuzzy Fox) || "Nothing takes the taste out of > peanut > sometimes known as David DeSimone || butter quite like unrequited love." > http://www.dallas.net/~fox/ || -- Charlie > Brown > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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