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Date:      Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:23:23 +0100 (CET)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To:        Mark Evans <mbe2@bayou.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ls -l takes a forever to finish.
Message-ID:  <20071129122043.A9040@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
In-Reply-To: <003101c831da$a405bc50$0d00a8c0@bayoucshaffer>
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> 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.



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