Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Ron Peterson <> | | Date | Mon, 13 Jun 2005 08:05:20 -0400 | | Subject | Re: slow directory listing |
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On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 12:12:52AM +0200, Bodo Eggert wrote: > 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.
ls was aliased to 'ls -F', it just took me a while to notice...
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