I rebooted to make sure caches were cleared. # /usr/bin/time du dancer-2011-03-01 panic-2011-03-01 panic-2012-01-01 dancer-2010-12-01 panic-2011-02-01 panic-2010-11-29 panic-2012-02-01 > du.out 9.32user 32.55system 7:52.79elapsed 8%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 1577136maxresident)k
So it takes 8 minutes to read 7 of the same 8 directories (I typoed one of them and don't know what it was) with du, and less than a second to load them with xdiskusage with "xdiskusage du.out". -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-utils in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/986597 Title: Way too slow scanning drive To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-utils/+bug/986597/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
