[mythtv] [mythtv-commits] Ticket #1835: Gradually delete big files to avoid I/O starvation on some filesystems

Chris Pinkham cpinkham at bc2va.org
Thu May 25 04:55:52 UTC 2006


* On Wed May 24, 2006 at 06:46:58PM -0400, Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
> Lets just say every file needs to be fully truncated in 4 minutes and
> DoHandleDeleteRecording() has to return immediately. This ensures
> that all the files deleted by AutoExpire::SendDeleteMessages()
> are actually deleted by the next time it runs.

Sounds OK, but you still have to deal with the issue that if you delete
5 files at the same time (manually), then you need to know about the
sizes of all 5 in order to delete them in the 4-minute window.  Unless
you update the lastmodified timestamp as mentioned and even that won't
fix the issue totally.  If you hit the deletelock mutex on files 2-5
while file 1 is taking 4 minutes to delete, then you don't have a chance
to update the lastmodified timestamp.  You could update it right after
you get the deletelock lock, but for file #3, that is too late since it
would have been 8 minutes since it the delete was triggered.  This is
why I think it is a bit more complicated than you guys are thinking.
If you say all files have to be truncated in the next 4 minutes, then
you still need to know the total filesize so you can delete files #1-4
at a fast enough speed to finish file #5 within that 4 minutes.

--
Chris


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