X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Dave Korn" To: Subject: RE: Delay in "ls" Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 21:20:44 +0100 Message-ID: <001201c6eca9$91cf7c00$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <20061010200616.GA20111@dirac.org> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On 10 October 2006 21:06, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > There appears to be a stochastic delay in the "ls" program. I used bash's > time function to time how long it takes for ls to do its job (output of "ls" > suppressed): > > real m10.492s user 0m0.030s sys 0m0.030s > real m 0.074s user 0m0.030s sys 0m0.062s > real m 0.075s user 0m0.046s sys 0m0.030s > real m 8.641s user 0m0.046s sys 0m0.015s > real m 0.072s user 0m0.030s sys 0m0.046s > real m 0.072s user 0m0.030s sys 0m0.046s > real m 0.074s user 0m0.046s sys 0m0.046s > real m 0.077s user 0m0.045s sys 0m0.046s > real m10.854s user 0m0.030s sys 0m0.046s > > I'm attaching cygcheck output and an strace of ls. YOW!!! CR-CR-LF lineendings! :-) Are you trying to start a fight, or what? > Any help of reducing or eliminating this delay would be greatly appreciated. Well, it's quite likely that something else in your system is interfering and locking it out, but I do wonder: c:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\ \\fitch.corp\SysVol\fitch.corp\Policies\{EC44E774-A908-4583-AE7F-B21D1F38465A} \User\Scripts\Logon c:\Program Files\ThinkPad\Utilities You have a network drive in your path. Does it work any better without that? cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/