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Re: amazingly long ls times
- To: Tom Dorgan <tdorgan at yahoo dot com>
- Subject: Re: amazingly long ls times
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 11:38:06 -0400
- CC: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- References: <20010504145650.1551.qmail@web3306.mail.yahoo.com>
- Reply-To: Cygwin Users <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
Tom Dorgan wrote:
>
> hello,
>
> been using cygwin for around 2 years. been keeping up with the updates.
> running on win2k. "lately" have noticed ls seems sluggish. check this
> out:
> $ time ls -aF
> <86 filenames deleted>
> real 0m9.224s
> user 0m0.060s
> sys 0m0.090s
> $
>
> this seems typical. my disk has been scrubbed with de-fragmenter. was
> using ~123/256mb at time of command. doesnt seem right.
>
The developers are currently aware of the slowness and are working at
getting responsiveness improved. I've just submitted a patch to Newlib
which will help with your reported long ls time once the patch is
approved.
Earnie.
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