Thanks for the pointer, I just gave it a whirl, it actually didn't make much of a difference.
I am going to start looking into making a patch. Chris > On Jun 1 14:42, Christopher Wingert wrote: >> I think there are a lot of use cases where the extra information (ACL >> information *I assume* is the majority of the problem) is unnecessary. >> For most of the applications filename, size, and the three dates are all >> that is necessary. So cygwin stat is overkill. So if I can tell the >> emulation layer (via an environment flag) or the actually utility >> (bash/ls/make/find/du) via a command line switch, I think I can save a >> lot >> of time waiting. >> >> Just to highlight how bad this problem is. I have a network drive with >> 681 sub directories and approximately 90k files. A time comparison for >> getting directory information as follows: >> >> *DOS "dir /s" takes 17 seconds. >> *Cygwin "ls -lR" takes 5950 seconds (that's almost two hours). >> *msls -lR takes 55 seconds. >> *myls (see code below) takes 7 seconds. >> >> Each test was done twice and after a reboot to make sure there was no >> caching involved. >> >> To be clear, Cygwin ls is 850X slower. > > Did you try to mount the network drive with the "noacl" mount option? > That skips requesting the owner/group information. > > > Corinna > > -- > Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to > Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > Red Hat > > -- > 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 > > -- 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
