Very very slow

[Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.]

Kris Kennaway wrote:

>On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 10:16:38AM +0200, Albert Shih wrote:
>  
>
>>	32 sec to do
>>
>>cd /usr/src
>>time find . -type f -print > /dev/null
>>
>>and on other computer I just need 0.8 sec to do that.
>>    
>>
>
>I don't believe that, unless you already have all of /usr/src in
>cache.  32 seconds seems quite normal for searching and reading ~55000
>directory entries (on the machine I just tried it took 42 seconds).
>
>Kris
>  
>

Hmm.  Didn't take that long here. 

Celeron 2.4, 768MB DDR, full src
(enough to buildworld on 5.2.1-p3, anyway):

<kadmin at archangel> [/usr/src] [19:10]
% sudo time find . -type f -print > /dev/null

        3.60 real         0.34 user         1.86 sys

KDK