Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> (I work with big directories, and big files. Often I'll have a program 
> that runs 3 hours, then takes half an hour to delete its input files. Or 
> individual files that take 2 minutes of disk I/O to delete. Or empty 
> directories that take several minutes to delete because they used to 
> have six or seven million files in em.  And of course, the machine 
> becomes completely unusable during any sort of operation like that.)

  Isn't that a clear sign that a re-design of your programs is in place?-)

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                                                          - Warp

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