From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 29 12:16: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13DD537B401 for ; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 12:16:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from pursued-with.net (adsl-66-125-9-242.dsl.sndg02.pacbell.net [66.125.9.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83DFB43EB2 for ; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 12:15:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net) Received: from pursued-with.net (fffinch [192.168.168.101]) by pursued-with.net (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gATKFpAF012660; Fri, 29 Nov 2002 12:15:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net) Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 12:15:51 -0800 Subject: Re: Bewildered: ls/cp/du take ages Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v548) Cc: To: Marc Schneiders From: Kevin Stevens In-Reply-To: <20021129183441.I73943-100000@voo.doo.net> Message-Id: <5B1F6568-03D7-11D7-B169-003065715DA8@pursued-with.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.548) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message