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[jira] Commented: (HADOOP-4032) Does a big delete starve other clients?

    [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4032?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12628468#action_12628468 ] 

Doug Cutting commented on HADOOP-4032:
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This sounds like something that should be easy to benchmark, no?

> Does a big delete starve other clients?
> ---------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-4032
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4032
>             Project: Hadoop Core
>          Issue Type: Task
>          Components: dfs
>    Affects Versions: 0.18.0
>            Reporter: Robert Chansler
>
> Or, more generally, is there _any_ operation that has the potential to severely starve other clients?
> The speculation is that deleting a directory with 50,000 files might starve other client for several seconds. Is that true? Is that necessary?

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