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Date:      Fri, 29 Nov 2002 18:37:04 +0100 (CET)
From:      Marc Schneiders <marc@schneiders.org>
To:        <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Bewildered: ls/cp/du take ages
Message-ID:  <20021129183441.I73943-100000@voo.doo.net>

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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?

Top output doing "ll /etc"

last pid: 73939;  load averages:  1.02,  0.95,  0.60
up 12+18:01:24  18:34:10
28 processes:  2 running, 26 sleeping
CPU states: 98.6% user,  0.0% nice,  0.7% system,  0.7% interrupt,
0.0% idle
Mem: 29M Active, 481M Inact, 72M Wired, 13M Cache, 73M Buf, 31M Free
Swap: 4096M Total, 4096M Free

  PID USERNAME PRI NICE  SIZE    RES STATE    TIME   WCPU    CPU
COMMAND
73937 root      60   0  5672K  5540K RUN      0:27 86.82% 67.48% ls
73939 root      34   0  1896K  1168K RUN      0:01 15.69%  4.64% top
 7388 root       2   0  2500K  1716K select  33:27  1.86%  1.86% sshd



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