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Re: amazingly long ls times


Tom Dorgan wrote:
> 
> hello,
> 
> been using cygwin for around 2 years. been keeping up with the updates.
> running on win2k. "lately" have noticed ls seems sluggish. check this
> out:
> $ time ls -aF
> <86 filenames deleted>
> real    0m9.224s
> user    0m0.060s
> sys     0m0.090s
> $
> 
> this seems typical. my disk has been scrubbed with de-fragmenter. was
> using ~123/256mb at time of command. doesnt seem right.
> 

The developers are currently aware of the slowness and are working at
getting responsiveness improved.  I've just submitted a patch to Newlib
which will help with your reported long ls time once the patch is
approved.

Earnie.

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