How to delete files without big iowait

Posted by KsI on July 23, 2015 Leave a comment (0) Go to comments

I know 2 ways, tested in high loaded production.

if scheduler support ionice (on some systems makes LA)

# ionice -c 3 nice -n 20 find /DIRECTORY -type f -delete

Just ajust sleep time, according to your system LA

while true; do find /DIRECTORY/ -type f -print -delete -quit; sleep 0.01; done

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