Re: ext3 File System Performance Issue

On 27 Mar 2007 10:48:20 -0700 Kaz Kylheku <kkylheku@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| On Mar 23, 12:37 am, "LaBird" <wlcheung1...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
|> Dear all,
|>
|> 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.)
|
| What if you allocated your /tmp as a tmpfs mount?

WHat if your swap space is not large enough for it?

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