From owner-freebsd-questions  Wed May 21 01:04:38 1997
Return-Path: <owner-questions>
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA26490
          for questions-outgoing; Wed, 21 May 1997 01:04:38 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from netcom22.netcom.com (sauber@netcom22.netcom.com [192.100.81.136])
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA26485
          for <questions@freebsd.org>; Wed, 21 May 1997 01:04:36 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from localhost (sauber@localhost) by netcom22.netcom.com (8.6.13/Netcom)
	id BAA05602; Wed, 21 May 1997 01:04:27 -0700
Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 01:04:26 -0700 (PDT)
From: Soren Dossing <sauber@netcom.com>
X-Sender: sauber@netcom22
To: questions@freebsd.org
Subject: rm is slow
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.95.970521005728.26430C-100000@netcom22>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk

rm deletes files very slowly on my system, much slower than the files can
be created. It takes more than an hour to delete one GB of files.

Why is that, and is there anything I can do to speed it up ? I use a P200
system with a A2940UW controller. The freebsd version is 2.2.2 - are there
any kernel configurations that I should set, to speed file deletion up.

Or do any utilities exist, that can delete files faster ?

Soren