Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Oct 2003 00:54:28 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: /proc reliability & performance |
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On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 20:07, Albert Cahalan wrote: >> I created a process with 360 thousand threads, >> went into the /proc/*/task directory, and did >> a simple /bin/ls. It took over 9 minutes on a >> nice fast Opteron.
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 01:40:03AM -0600, Zan Lynx wrote: > Did you try using find instead of ls? ls loads all entries and then > sorts them, so it can create an alphabetical display. > Try using find. It will not take quite so long.
GNU ls has a -U flag that should come in handy.
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