Re: unlink aggressively robs resources

Andrea Arcangeli (arcangeli@mbox.queen.it)
Tue, 16 Jun 1998 20:48:44 +0200 (CEST)


On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Dean Gaudet wrote:

>I've noticed this with 2.1.84, .86, and .103 kernels. When you unlink
>large files on an ext2 disk, the machine becomes extremely choppy. Not

You could try to killall -9 update (note that doing that if your machine
will crash you will lost ton of cached data).

Andrea[s] Arcangeli

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