Hello, Since my most recent cygwin upgrade today executing a ls in the directories is very slow. Also completion, for example cd Prog [hitting tab] lasts about 20 seconds to expand to Program\ Files.
Before that aupdate i had an about 2 months old cygwin 1.7 - the ls behaviour was ok. Now cygwin1.dll is version: 1007.5.0.0. Measuring the times: in /cygdrive/c/ $ time ls AUTOEXEC.BAT IDE Perl WINDOWS cygwin BMWApps IO.SYS Program Files Win32App cygwin1_7 BOOT.BAK Install Python25 XL Driver Library ntldr MSDOS.SYS RECYCLER boot.ini pagefile.sys CONFIG.SYS MSOCache System Volume Information cmdcons temp Documents and Settings NTDETECT.COM TAF cmldr tmp_pic Oracle Verkn??pfung mit Lokaler Datentr??ger (C).lnk ctapi_out_gr.txt real 0m16.313s user 0m0.030s sys 0m0.015s or in /cygdrive/d/ #time ls VC_RED.MSI eula.1042.txt install.res.1031.dll musikbkp 78286fb703a988b923 VC_RED.cab eula.2052.txt install.res.1033.dll eula.1028.txt eula.3082.txt install.res.1036.dll short eula.1031.txt globdata.ini install.res.1040.dll temp Recycled eula.1033.txt imgs_fuer_Florian install.res.1041.dll vcredist.bmp SSSDecoder.log eula.1036.txt install.exe install.res.1042.dll System Volume Information eula.1040.txt install.ini install.res.2052.dll Traces eula.1041.txt install.res.1028.dll install.res.3082.dll real 0m12.172s user 0m0.030s sys 0m0.015s Doing a ls in a subdirectory needs much less time: # time ls (Folder list) real 0m0.062s user 0m0.046s sys 0m0.015s The performance in subdirectories is ok. Also mounted network drives are very slow in main directory, but fast in subdirs. Is this a known issue? Regards, Simon -- GRATIS für alle GMX-Mitglieder: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT! Jetzt freischalten unter http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/maxdome01 -- 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