[Dovecot] More efficient Deleting of a whole folder (or Purging Trash)

[Benjamin R. Haskell]

On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Benjamin R. Haskell wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Gabriel Millerd wrote:
>
>> Making a perl script to insert 35k emails using dovecot deliver
>> doesn't impact my under resourced machines and I work with
>> spam/(false|ham|queue) system with mail::imapclient automation and the
>> script flies through thousands of messages on the hour without notice.
>> 
>
> Did you then delete those 35K messages in one fell swoop? I wouldn't be 
> surprised if XFS's performance were significantly different between these 
> exaggerrated extremes:
>
> repeat 35000 times: { create a file, delete a file }
>
> and
>
> create 35000 files, delete 35000 files
>
> Best,
> Ben
>

Forgot to ask: Are you using XFS?