ls -l takes a forever to finish.

[Jeff Mohler]

HOW large is the directory?

ls | wc -l



On Nov 28, 2007 7:44 AM, Mark Evans <mbe2 at bayou.com> wrote:

> No we are not using NIS.
>
> it is a large directory i am listing.  actually it is the /usr/home
> directory, and is probably the largest on the system. However "ls -l" runs
> for close to six minutesand spends the 10 seconds scrolling the screen
> with
> the results.  so i wait ls to start showing the results for about 5 and a
> half minutes.   Even on a older and much slower system i've never seen it
> talk more than 15 seconds to complete.
>
>
> Thanks
> Mark
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kris Kennaway" <kris at FreeBSD.org>
> To: "Mark Evans" <mbe2 at bayou.com>
> Cc: <questions at FreeBSD.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 5:13 PM
> Subject: Re: ls -l takes a forever to finish.
>
>
> > Mark Evans wrote:
> >> I'm using FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE.  When I run "ls -l" it takes forever for
> >> the it to complete. top shows that the "ls -l" command uses about 98%
> of
> >> the CPU doing the time.  If I run "ls"  I do not experience any
> problem.
> >> anyone have any ideas?
> >
> > Are you using NIS for user/group lookups?
> >
> > Is it a large directory that is taking a long time to sort?
> >
> > Kris
> >
> >
> >
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