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From: Joe Buehler <jbuehler AT hekimian DOT com>
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Subject: Re: "find" taking a long time
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 11:23:48 -0400
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Eric J. Holtman wrote:

> This is all on an NTFS formatted disk, and seems to happen with
> either the 1.3.9 or 1.3.11-3 cygwin.dll.
> 
> I have a directory with 40000+ files, and I get the following behavior:

That's pretty huge, and might be the source of the problem.  I don't know
about Windows, but UNIX systems generally do not perform well with such huge
directories.

Joe Buehler




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