Re: slow directory listing

[Bodo Eggert]

Ron Peterson <rpeterso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 10:37:20AM -0400, rpeterso wrote:

>> I'm setting up a new mail server, and am testing/tweaking IO.  I have
>> two directories: /test/a which contains 750 mbox files totalling 8GB,
>> and /test/a2, which contains the exact same number of files, same names,
>> all zero length.
>> ...
>> The times taken to do a directory listing are significantly different.
> 
> I've become more confused, if that's possible.  I was just editing some
> test script in emacs.  As part of the script creation process I used the
> M-! command to pipe the output of 'ls /test/a' into a buffer.  It
> snapped back almost instantly.

Try ls|cat and take a look at $LS_OPTIONS and $LS_COLORS. I suspect your
ls tries to use some magic on the files to determine the color.
-- 
Ich danke GMX dafür, die Verwendung meiner Adressen mittels per SPF
verbreiteten Lügen zu sabotieren.
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