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Date:      Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:13:33 +0100
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mark Evans <mbe2@bayou.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ls -l takes a forever to finish.
Message-ID:  <474CA49D.50306@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <005901c8313f$f7048b70$0d00a8c0@bayoucshaffer>
References:  <005901c8313f$f7048b70$0d00a8c0@bayoucshaffer>

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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?

Are you using NIS for user/group lookups?

Is it a large directory that is taking a long time to sort?

Kris




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