Re: Slow directory listing

2007-07-05 Thread Lewis Hyatt
Could be something else interfering. Known culprits include: Sonic Solutions burning software containing DLA component Norton/MacAffee/Symantec antivirus or antispyware Logitech webcam software with "Logitech process monitor" service Kerio, Agnitum or ZoneAlarm Personal Firewall Iolo System M

RE: Slow directory listing

2007-07-05 Thread Dave Korn
On 05 July 2007 20:55, Anton Ivanov wrote: > It still appears to me that in my particular case the slow-down is not > necessary. Could be something else interfering. Known culprits include: Sonic Solutions burning software containing DLA component Norton/MacAffee/Symantec antivirus or antisp

Re: Slow directory listing

2007-07-05 Thread Brian Dessent
Anton Ivanov wrote: > As I said the directory for which the listing takes a long time to > produce contains only 22 entries. > I tried 'ls', not 'ls -l'. Note that sometimes even plain 'ls' requires a full stat call on each file, such as if you have coloring enabled via an alias or for the printi

Re: Slow directory listing

2007-07-05 Thread Anton Ivanov
>> I experience a problem whereby 'ls' of a directory takes upwards of 20 >> seconds. I've searched around the archives and found reports of issues >> that could be similar (i.e. slow bash completion) but it didn't seem >> like any action was taken. >Cygwin is slow. This is by design. 20 second

RE: Slow directory listing

2007-07-03 Thread Dave Korn
On 04 July 2007 00:57, Brian Dessent wrote: > Anton Ivanov wrote: > >> Neither does coLinux when accessing it over smb mount. > > Oh and I forgot to mention that this is not a fair comparison either, > because when accessing a windows filesystem over SMB symlinks are not > supported and all file

Re: Slow directory listing

2007-07-03 Thread Brian Dessent
Anton Ivanov wrote: > Neither does coLinux when accessing it over smb mount. Oh and I forgot to mention that this is not a fair comparison either, because when accessing a windows filesystem over SMB symlinks are not supported and all files are owned by root with permissions 0644 (or 0755 for dir

Re: Slow directory listing

2007-07-03 Thread Brian Dessent
Anton Ivanov wrote: > I experience a problem whereby 'ls' of a directory takes upwards of 20 > seconds. I've searched around the archives and found reports of issues > that could be similar (i.e. slow bash completion) but it didn't seem > like any action was taken. Cygwin is slow. This is by de

Slow directory listing

2007-07-03 Thread Anton Ivanov
Hi, I experience a problem whereby 'ls' of a directory takes upwards of 20 seconds. I've searched around the archives and found reports of issues that could be similar (i.e. slow bash completion) but it didn't seem like any action was taken. Anyways, the directory is strictly on cygwin's root mo