From: Ron Peterson <rpeterso@mtholyoke.edu>
To: 7eggert@gmx.de
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: slow directory listing
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 08:05:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050613120520.GA26921@mtholyoke.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1DgrkL-00029X-HW@be1.7eggert.dyndns.org>
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...
--
Ron Peterson
Network & Systems Manager
Mount Holyoke College
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~rpeterso
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-13 12:05 UTC|newest]
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2005-06-10 22:12 ` slow directory listing Bodo Eggert
2005-06-13 12:05 ` Ron Peterson [this message]
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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