hi rob, unfortunately i could not reproduce the problem. please tell me - are you sure nothing else was using up thge file descriptors - the output of "uname -a" - is the directory structure "shallow" (many directories, few files per directory) or "deep" (few directories, many files per dir)? - could you try the attached perl script, it creates a directory called "FILL" with 10 subdirs of 10000 small files each. does the problem also show when deleting that? if yes: also when using "-rfll"? - are there any other features of that directory structure that might affect the outcome? hardlinks? symbolic links? directories without the necessary permissions?
thanks robert -- Robert Lemmen http://www.semistable.com
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
my $i;
my $j;
mkdir("FILL");
for ($i = 0; $i < 10; $i++) {
mkdir("FILL/$i");
for ($j = 0; $j < 10000; $j++) {
my $fh;
open($fh, ">FILL/$i/$j");
print $fh "$i $j\n";
close($fh);
}
}
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