Re: ext3 File System Performance Issue

LaBird <wlcheung1975@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in part:
I am writing a program which generates lots of temp
files, and need to remove the unneeded ones (to save disk
space) during execution. Currently I put them into the
/tmp directory, but I found the performance very slow,
especially during the file remove phase when the number
of files generated is large. (Each file size is small,
at a maximum of 16KB, though.)

Sounds a lot like a newspool. I can't imagine anyone
want a journal on that flood!

Does mounting the FS with `noatime` improve things?"

-- Robert

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