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Date:      Fri, 29 Nov 2002 12:15:51 -0800
From:      Kevin Stevens <Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net>
To:        Marc Schneiders <marc@schneiders.org>
Cc:        <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Bewildered: ls/cp/du take ages
Message-ID:  <5B1F6568-03D7-11D7-B169-003065715DA8@pursued-with.net>
In-Reply-To: <20021129183441.I73943-100000@voo.doo.net>

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On Friday, Nov 29, 2002, at 09:37 US/Pacific, Marc Schneiders wrote:

> I have a machine that now shows this behaviour:
>
> ls
> cp
> du
>
> take ages on a directory of 5 MB of (small) files (dir = /etc). And
> eat the CPU.
>
> What is the matter? Shitty RAM?

No.

I would suspect that the filesystem is corrupt.  Recommend iterations 
of fsck.  Back up first.

KeS


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