X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SARE_SUB_MINUTES,TW_LR X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 13:27:11 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: "ls -lrt" takes over 2 minutes for 750 files! From: Jim Reisert AD1C To: The Cygwin Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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 Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote: > Running this version of Cygwin: > > CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 JJR 1.7.7(0.230/5/3) 2010-08-31 09:58 i686 Cygwin > > I have a directory with 753 files. > > "ls -lrt" (directory in reverse time order) takes forever (well, over > 2 minutes): > > 0.062u 0.264s 2:18.31 0.2% =A0 =A0 =A00+0k 0+0io 2822pf+0w > > A straight "ls" takes under 1/10 second: > > 0.000u 0.046s 0:00.08 50.0% =A0 =A0 0+0k 0+0io 2572pf+0w > > This is a 1.5TB SATA drive in a Intel Q6600 computer with 4GB of RAM. > > This seems to be a recent problem. =A0Any idea what it might be? If I pipe the output of ls -lrt to /dev/null, it completes in under a secon= d. I have a GeForce 9500 GT using the almost latest drivers (260.89). Running in an xterm: JJR:/cygdrive/f/download> xterm -version Cygwin 6.8.99.903(261) And this X server: Welcome to the XWin X Server Vendor: The Cygwin/X Project Release: 1.9.2.0 (10902000) Build Date: 2010-11-03 - Jim --=20 Jim Reisert AD1C, , http://www.ad1c.us -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple