[CentOS] lots of disk activity keep process from responding

[Les Mikesell]

On 6/20/2011 10:31 AM, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> Jerry Geis wrote on Mon, 20 Jun 2011 11:05:34 -0400:
>
>> The trimmming of the log files is just so they they dont take a bunch of
>> space on the HD.
>
> use logrotate and zip them.

Not sure how that helps with the issue of queuing up a whole lot of disk 
activity at once with a lot of locking operations (directory and free 
space updates).  Can you split the files into some reasonable number of 
subdirectories and process one subdirectory at a time with a few seconds 
between to let the disk queue flush?

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