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<div class="im">> On 01/06/10 22:34, Sunil Mushran wrote:<br>>> The kernel is old. We fixed this issue in 2.6.30. We have also backported<br>>> it to the 1.4 production tree.<br>>><br>>> The problem was that the inodes being created did not have locality<br>
>> leading to a directory having inodes that were spaced far apart from<br>>> each other. The one place where it really affected performance was "rm".<br>><br>> Thank you for reply!<br></div></blockquote>
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<div>I've seen this rm problem in the production version of SLES 10.3 +updates.</div>
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<div>Is this fix available in the SLES Enterprise kernels yet? 10.3.x or 11.1.x (11.1 officially releases today, btw).</div>
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<div>Thanks,</div>
<div>Angelo</div></div>