From: sos@prospect.com.ru (Sergey Okhapkin) Subject: RE: B18,B19 (NT 4.0): gnu tools are slow 7 May 1998 14:32:31 -0700 Message-ID: <01BD79C2.B2F8AD60.cygnus.gnu-win32@drs> To: "gnu-win32@cygnus.com" , "'Jonathan Payne'" Jonathan Payne wrote: > I have always noticed that the GNU tools are very slow when it comes to > accessing the file system. Recently I ran: > > ls d:/ > > and it took so long, and the disk was making so much noise, that I decided to > run a program called NT File Mon which some of you may have heard of. The thing > I noticed was that LS was apparently reading all the directories 1-level deep. > And I happened to have a directory with 1000+ files in it at the top level, so > that's why it took even longer than normal. Cygwin scans every subdirectory to correctly fill-in st_nlinks field of stat structure. -- Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos Moscow, Russia. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".