On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C <jjreis...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Jim Reisert AD1C > <jjreis...@alum.mit.edu> 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% 0+0k 0+0io 2822pf+0w >> >> A straight "ls" takes under 1/10 second: >> >> 0.000u 0.046s 0:00.08 50.0% 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. Any idea what it might be? > > If I pipe the output of ls -lrt to /dev/null, it completes in under a second. > > 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 Sorry, one more. Once the ls -lrt > /dev/null completed, I tried it to the console again and it completed in under a second. Some caching issue somewhere? -- Jim Reisert AD1C, <jjreis...@alum.mit.edu>, 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
