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Date:      Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:41:40 -0800
From:      Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
To:        "Mark Evans" <mbe2@bayou.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ls -l takes a forever to finish.
Message-ID:  <D2A21CEA-6D91-4116-809C-1A447E6C3E21@u.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <005901c8313f$f7048b70$0d00a8c0@bayoucshaffer>
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On Nov 27, 2007, at 1:53 PM, 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


	That's incredibly strange because ls is a simple program... Could  
you attach gdb to ls and find out where it's eating up all of your  
CPU time?
-Garrett



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