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Interesting - a while ago I had a runaway script create files in a directory until the system ran out of inodes. I thought I had cleaned up after myself, and wh
by chias 5y ago
Interesting - a while ago I had a runaway script create files in a directory until the system ran out of inodes. I thought I had cleaned up after myself, and while that directory only has a hundred or so files in it now, the directory itself is still 154 megs. Wild.
Fixing it by just creating a new dir and copying the files over is, thankfully, relatively straight-forward in my case :)
- gpderetta 5y agoGenerational garbage collection for the win!
- saltcured 5y agoSounds more like a plain old stop-and-copy/two space GC... Generational would be if they built a chain of directories to represent one (like with an overlay filesystem of some kind) and then periodically GC'd those at different rates, moving the persistent entries into less and less frequently scanned dirs.