最初的測評
昨天，我看到一個非常有趣的刪除一個目錄下的海量文件的方法。這個方法來自http://www.quora.com/How-can-someone-rapidly-delete-400-000-files裡的Zhenyu Lee。
他沒有使用find 或 xargs，他很有創意的利用了rsync的強大功能（參考：Linux下使用rsync最快速刪除海量文件的方法），使用rsync –delete將目標文件夾以一個空文件夾來替換。之後，我做了一個實驗來比較各種方法。讓我吃驚的是，Lee的方法要比其它的快的多。下面就是我的測評。
環境：
使用 –delete 和 –exclude，你可以選擇性刪除符合條件的文件。還有一點，當你需要保留這個目錄做其它用處時，這種方法是再適合不過了。
重新測評
幾天前，Keith-Winstein在回復Quora上的這個帖子時說我之前的測評無法復制，因為操作的時間持續的太久。我澄清一下，這些數據過大，可能是因為我的計算機在過去的幾年裡做的事太多，測評中可能存在一些文件系統錯誤。但我不確定是這些原因。現在好了，我弄了一天比較新的計算機，把測評再做一次。這次我使用/usr/bin/time，它能提供更詳細的信息。下面就是新的結果。
(每次都是1000000個文件。每個文件的體積都是0。)
原始輸出
# method 1
~/test $ /usr/bin/time -v rsync -a --delete empty/ a/
Command being timed: "rsync -a --delete empty/ a/"
User time (seconds): 1.31
System time (seconds): 10.60
Percent of CPU this job got: 95%
Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 0:12.42
Average shared text size (kbytes): 0
Average unshared data size (kbytes): 0
Average stack size (kbytes): 0
Average total size (kbytes): 0
Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 0
Average resident set size (kbytes): 0
Major (requiring I/O) page faults: 0
Minor (reclaiming a frame) page faults: 24378
Voluntary context switches: 106
Involuntary context switches: 22
Swaps: 0
File system inputs: 0
File system outputs: 0
Socket messages sent: 0
Socket messages received: 0
Signals delivered: 0
Page size (bytes): 4096
Exit status: 0
# method 2
Command being timed: "find b/ -type f -delete"
User time (seconds): 0.41
System time (seconds): 14.46
Percent of CPU this job got: 52%
Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 0:28.51
Average shared text size (kbytes): 0
Average unshared data size (kbytes): 0
Average stack size (kbytes): 0
Average total size (kbytes): 0
Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 0
Average resident set size (kbytes): 0
Major (requiring I/O) page faults: 0
Minor (reclaiming a frame) page faults: 11749
Voluntary context switches: 14849
Involuntary context switches: 11
Swaps: 0
File system inputs: 0
File system outputs: 0
Socket messages sent: 0
Socket messages received: 0
Signals delivered: 0
Page size (bytes): 4096
Exit status: 0
# method 3
find c/ -type f | xargs -L 100 rm
~/test $ /usr/bin/time -v ./delete.sh
Command being timed: "./delete.sh"
User time (seconds): 2.06
System time (seconds): 20.60
Percent of CPU this job got: 54%
Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 0:41.69
Average shared text size (kbytes): 0
Average unshared data size (kbytes): 0
Average stack size (kbytes): 0
Average total size (kbytes): 0
Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 0
Average resident set size (kbytes): 0
Major (requiring I/O) page faults: 0
Minor (reclaiming a frame) page faults: 1764225
Voluntary context switches: 37048
Involuntary context switches: 15074
Swaps: 0
File system inputs: 0
File system outputs: 0
Socket messages sent: 0
Socket messages received: 0
Signals delivered: 0
Page size (bytes): 4096
Exit status: 0
# method 4
find d/ -type f | xargs -L 100 -P 100 rm
~/test $ /usr/bin/time -v ./delete.sh
Command being timed: "./delete.sh"
User time (seconds): 2.86
System time (seconds): 27.82
Percent of CPU this job got: 89%
Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 0:34.32
Average shared text size (kbytes): 0
Average unshared data size (kbytes): 0
Average stack size (kbytes): 0
Average total size (kbytes): 0
Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 0
Average resident set size (kbytes): 0
Major (requiring I/O) page faults: 0
Minor (reclaiming a frame) page faults: 1764278
Voluntary context switches: 929897
Involuntary context switches: 21720
Swaps: 0
File system inputs: 0
File system outputs: 0
Socket messages sent: 0
Socket messages received: 0
Signals delivered: 0
Page size (bytes): 4096
Exit status: 0
# method 5
~/test $ /usr/bin/time -v rm -rf f
Command being timed: "rm -rf f"
User time (seconds): 0.20
System time (seconds): 14.80
Percent of CPU this job got: 47%
Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 0:31.29
Average shared text size (kbytes): 0
Average unshared data size (kbytes): 0
Average stack size (kbytes): 0
Average total size (kbytes): 0
Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 0
Average resident set size (kbytes): 0
Major (requiring I/O) page faults: 0
Minor (reclaiming a frame) page faults: 176
Voluntary context switches: 15134
Involuntary context switches: 11
Swaps: 0
File system inputs: 0
File system outputs: 0
Socket messages sent: 0
Socket messages received: 0
Signals delivered: 0
Page size (bytes): 4096
Exit status: 0
我真的十分好奇為什麼Lee的方法要比其它的快，竟然比rm -rf也要快。如果有人知道，請寫在下面，非常感謝。
