Disk operations are always slower if the disk is busy to begin with.
On 29 Feb 2000 nbecker@fred.net wrote:
> A coworker has an application that produces 10's of thousands of small
> files. It seems the performance of even a simple operation, such as
> 'rm -rf' or find | xargs rm is very very slow.
>
> What are the mechanisms that limit performance? Is it the type of
> data structure used to represent directories?
>
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