Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:01:22 -0500 From: Bart Silverstrim <bsilver@chrononomicon.com> To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Mark Evans <mbe2@bayou.com> Subject: Re: ls -l takes a forever to finish. Message-ID: <474EB822.5020603@chrononomicon.com> In-Reply-To: <20071129122043.A9040@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <005901c8313f$f7048b70$0d00a8c0@bayoucshaffer> <474CA49D.50306@FreeBSD.org> <002001c831d5$80ad8670$0d00a8c0@bayoucshaffer> <a969fbd10711280752v7d38070x5f34d9d652ec4f7f@mail.gmail.com> <003101c831da$a405bc50$0d00a8c0@bayoucshaffer> <20071129122043.A9040@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> ls | wc > > strange. i did > > [wojtek@wojtek ~/b]$ a=0;while [ $a -lt 10000 ];do mkdir $a;a=$[a+1];done > > completed <25 seconds on 1Ghz CPU > > ls takes 0.1 seconds user time, ls -l takes 0.3 second user time. > > unless you have 486/33 or slower system there is something wrong. Has anyone tried fsck and/or smartmontools on the drive? Maybe something like Spinrite?
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