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Subject: kern/3836: Cannot remove HUGE directory
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>Number:         3836
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       Cannot remove HUGE directory
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Jun 10 12:20:01 PDT 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     David Muir Sharnoff
>Organization:
Idiom
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.1.7.1-RELEASE i386
>Environment:

	A news system, without expire running...

>Description:

	Quite accidently, I managed to create a directory with a 
	large number of files in it.  I'm not sure how many.  The
	directory itself is 12MB.  I suspect there are about 750,000
	files in there.

	If I run find on that directory, the find process immediately
	bloats to 35MB.

	If I run rm on that directory, the rm process immediately bloats to
	35MB.

	Using a simple perl program (doesn't bloat) I'm able to remove
	one file every two seconds or so.  At this rate, it will take
	over four days to remove the directory!

	This bug report is not filed in complete seriousness.  Most poeple
	aren't likely to run into this problem.

>How-To-Repeat:

	Run news.  Take a full feed of control.  Don't run expire for
	two weeks.

>Fix:
	

>Audit-Trail:
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