Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:04:19 -0700 From: James Harrison <jamesh@lanl.gov> To: Mark Evans <mbe2@bayou.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ls -l takes a forever to finish. Message-ID: <1196265859.14883.3.camel@p25dual1.lanl.gov> In-Reply-To: <002001c831d5$80ad8670$0d00a8c0@bayoucshaffer> References: <005901c8313f$f7048b70$0d00a8c0@bayoucshaffer> <474CA49D.50306@FreeBSD.org> <002001c831d5$80ad8670$0d00a8c0@bayoucshaffer>
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On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 09:44 -0600, Mark Evans wrote: > No we are not using NIS. > > it is a large directory i am listing. actually it is the /usr/home > directory, and is probably the largest on the system. However "ls -l" runs > for close to six minutesand spends the 10 seconds scrolling the screen with > the results. so i wait ls to start showing the results for about 5 and a > half minutes. Even on a older and much slower system i've never seen it > talk more than 15 seconds to complete. > > > Thanks > Mark > How many directories, roughly? I've seen ls take *many* minutes listing the contents of a directory that contained tens of thousands of files.
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