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Re: [PATCH] rm, du, chmod, chown, chgrp: use much less memory for large


From: Erik Auerswald
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rm, du, chmod, chown, chgrp: use much less memory for large directories
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 23:20:47 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

Hi,

there is a typo in the NEWS entry:

On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 06:24:46PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> [...]
> +  fts-using tools (rm, du, chmod, chgrp, chown, chcon) no longer use memory
> +  proportional to the number of entries in each directory they process.
> +  Before, rm -rf 4-million-entry-directory would consume about 1GiB of 
> memory.
> +  Now, it uses less than 30GB, no matter how many entries there are.
                              ^
                              MB

Thanks,
Erik
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