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Old 06-09-2011
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Hi Expert's,
I need your assitance in tunning one script. I have a mount point where almost 4848008 files and 864739 directories are present. The script search for specific pattern files and specfic period then delete them to free up space. The script is designed to run daily and its taking around 3 complete days to complete. So the task of tunning came to me.
Initial the Script has 43 find command to delete files 5 find commands to delete the empty directory.
Code:
find ${PD} -type f -name '*(WEEK)*' -mtime +14 -exec rm {} \;
find ${PD} -type d -name '[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]*' -exec $rmdir {} \; > /dev/null 2>&1

Two ways I took to tune this script.
1)Combine all seraching pattern/time to reduce the find command like below
Code:
find ${PD} -type f \( -name '*(WEEK)*' -o -name '*(MON)*' -o -name '*(TUE)*' \
-o -name '*(WED)*' -o -name '*(THU)*' -o -name '*(FRI)*' -o -name '*(SAT)*' \
-o -name '*(SUN)*' -o -name '*(WEEKLY)*' \) -mtime +14 -exec rm {} \;

So I got only 7 find command for files and one command for directory. I think(not tested the approach yet) this reduce the search and reduce the time too.
2) Since the first one has -exec command along with the find command what i think is it will take more time, So second approach what I have is finding the files which i need to delete and the delete it with the below loop.
Code:
find ${PD} -type f \( -name '*(WEEK)*' -o -name '*(MON)*' -o -name '*(TUE)*' \
-o -name '*(WED)*' -o -name '*(THU)*' -o -name '*(FRI)*' -o -name '*(SAT)*' \
-o -name '*(SUN)*' -o -name '*(WEEKLY)*' \) -mtime +14 -print > remove.log
cat remove.log | while read ENTRY
do
if [ -f $ENTRY ]; then
rm -f $ENTRY
elif [ -d $ENTRY ]; then
rmdir $ENTRY
fi
done

So, What I request is please let me know the pros & cons on approach 1 & 2. Also please let me know find -exec will take more time or not.
Thanks
Senthil
# 2  
Old 06-09-2011
combining search patterns into one find command is a good idea.
Storing the filenames into a file and then looping through the contents of the file is slower than doing -exec, so unless you want to keep a log of what was deleted, it's reduntant.

Faster than doing -exec would be piping the output of find to xargs(1) like this:
Code:
find $PD <all options you need> | xargs rm

which would call rm only once for many files, as opposed to -exec, which will invoke rm for every file.

Calling find on a mountpoint is not ideal -- if at all possible, i'd recommend running the same find command on the machine that physically contains the filesystem.
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Old 06-09-2011
I would still go with option 1. However if the list of files to be removed is very large then you might get an error thats bevause it might go beyond the string which can be handled by the rm command.

-exec won't create any problem. Its as good as runing rm command.
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# 4  
Old 06-09-2011
@mirni/vidhyadhar
Since I'm combining the find commands by mtime(now its came only 7 mtime) so the removal list wont come big and I am reomving that each and every time. Also if I use the xargs at last is it fine?
Code:
 
find ${PD} -type f \( -name '*(WEEK)*' -o -name '*(MON)*' -o -name '*(TUE)*' \
    -o -name '*(WED)*' -o -name '*(THU)*' -o -name '*(FRI)*' -o -name '*(SAT)*' \
    -o -name '*(SUN)*' -o -name '*(WEEKLY)*' \) -mtime +14 -print | xargs rm

Also I'm runing the script where the mount is physicaly mounted.
# 5  
Old 06-09-2011
That looks good. No need for the -print switch, but it shouldn't influence performance.
Quote:
Also I'm runing the script where the mount is physicaly mounted.
You misunderstood. If the directory tree is on machine A's hard drive, and it's mounted on machine B's /mnt, running
Code:
find /mnt

on machine B is much slower than running
Code:
find /dirThatsExprted

directly on machine A (e.g. through ssh).
# 6  
Old 06-09-2011
Fine Tune - Huge files/directory - Purging

Can you please replace this line : -o -name '*(MON)*' with below code
-o -name '*(MON|TUE|WED|THU|FRI|SAT|SUN)*'

Hope this works 4 u SmilieSmilie

---------- Post updated at 05:29 AM ---------- Previous update was at 05:25 AM ----------

Quote:
Originally Posted by mirni
That looks good. No need for the -print switch, but it shouldn't influence performance.

You misunderstood. If the directory tree is on machine A's hard drive, and it's mounted on machine B's /mnt, running
Code:
find /mnt

on machine B is much slower than running
Code:
find /dirThatsExprted

directly on machine A (e.g. through ssh).
I think , by having xargs in command will add burden on tunning, since first it will add files in buffer then it will remove where as in direct command , it will keep removing once it finds the file/dir.
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# 7  
Old 06-09-2011
@Mirni,
By the statement from mann2719 xargs will delay the process, so shall I use the -exec flag?
@mann2719,
For Mtime +14 I'm having 9 seraching pattern, Shall i combine them in one like
Code:
-name '*(MON|TUE|WED|THU|FRI|SAT|SUN|WEEK|WEEKLY)*'

..? The file will have name like
Code:
2011_(MON)(RERUN).CSV

Also if the find has more than one search pattern is it will loop for more than once or loop for once and search for all pattern.
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