[PLUG] rm -rf somedir/ curiosity

MJang mike at linuxexam.com
Thu Feb 27 02:14:50 UTC 2014


On Wed, 2014-02-26 at 18:10 -0800, MJang wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I and a colleague had an annoying problem with a VM earlier today -- we
> needed to make room on that VM, and rm -rf'd a couple of directories. 
>         
> The deletion proceeded verrrrrrrrrrrry slowly, like maybe 100Kb deleted
> per minute.
>         
> It only came up to "normal" speeds when my colleague stopped the running
> instance of Tomcat on that system.
>         
> But we could not come up with any reason why Tomcat would affect the rm
> -rf process, and my Googles don't get an answer either.

I should add that the target directories included static files unrelated
to Tomcat, or anything running in that container.
>         
> Thanks,
> Mike





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