Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Path: not-for-mail From: Joe Buehler Newsgroups: gmane.os.cygwin Subject: Re: "find" taking a long time Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 11:23:48 -0400 Lines: 13 Message-ID: <3D1B2E04.2050002@hekimian.com> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020626175933.00ba9358@mail.ericholtman.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: hekimian.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1025191406 12630 206.205.138.10 (27 Jun 2002 15:23:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 15:23:26 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Eric J. Holtman wrote: > This is all on an NTFS formatted disk, and seems to happen with > either the 1.3.9 or 1.3.11-3 cygwin.dll. > > I have a directory with 40000+ files, and I get the following behavior: That's pretty huge, and might be the source of the problem. I don't know about Windows, but UNIX systems generally do not perform well with such huge directories. Joe Buehler -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/