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Date:      Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:35:23 -0800 (PST)
From:      Brian <bri@brianwhalen.net>
To:        Mark Evans <mbe2@bayou.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ls -l takes a forever to finish.
Message-ID:  <20071127143417.R1137@numail.brianwhalen.net>
In-Reply-To: <005901c8313f$f7048b70$0d00a8c0@bayoucshaffer>
References:  <005901c8313f$f7048b70$0d00a8c0@bayoucshaffer>

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Is a partition close to full, use df to see that.
Is ls -l aliased to something else that is digging into your directory 
tree, like when you're in /usr and type du?

brian

On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Mark Evans wrote:

> I'm using FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE.  When I run "ls -l" it takes forever for the it to complete. top shows that the "ls -l" command uses about 98% of the CPU doing the time.  If I run "ls"  I do not experience any problem.  anyone have any ideas?
>
> Thanks
> Mark
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