From: Bodo Eggert <harvested.in.lkml@posting.7eggert.dyndns.org>
To: Ron Peterson <rpeterso@mtholyoke.edu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: slow directory listing
Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 00:12:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1DgrkL-00029X-HW@be1.7eggert.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4dTCx-2d8-21@gated-at.bofh.it>
Ron Peterson <rpeterso@mtholyoke.edu> 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.
next parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-10 22:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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[not found] ` <4dTCx-2d8-21@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-06-10 22:12 ` Bodo Eggert [this message]
2005-06-13 12:05 ` Ron Peterson
2005-06-15 11:05 ` Vladimir Saveliev
2005-06-10 14:37 Ron Peterson
2005-06-10 15:21 ` Ron Peterson
2005-06-13 6:41 ` David Weinehall
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