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Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 10:34:25 +0200
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Subject: Re: Simple bash script is slow to execute - appears to be time spent  	starting commands like ls
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2009/9/2 Larry Adams:
> The problem as I see it is Windows. =A0For example, only 10 iterations ca=
used
> over 65k file and registry reads. =A0I have attached the output from
> SysInternals Process Explorer for your edification. =A0The only fix for t=
his
> is Linux. =A0I still use Windows for development and "LOVE" Cygwin. =A0But
> Windows can't be fixed.

The Windows filesystems (FAT, NTFS) are notoriously slow with a large
number of files in a dir. 1000- 5000 files seems to be a limit for stat().
access() is also much slower if you have inherited ACL's or large ACL lists

Does it run significantly faster with less then say 500 files?
--=20
Reini Urban
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