>> Directory "1" takes between 5-10 minutes for the same command to return
>> (it has about 50,000 files).
> That said, directories with 50K files list quite quickly here. a directory with 52,705 files lists in half a second here 36 % time \ls -1 > /dev/null 0.41u 0.07s 0:00.50 96.0% perhaps your ARC is too small? Rob _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss