 | | | nfs slowness with ls - but why? | nfs slowness with ls - but why? 2006-02-14 - By David Spidley
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> From: jch@(protected)
> Sent: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 14:42:42 +0000
> To: taroon-list@(protected)
> Subject: Re: nfs slowness with ls - but why?
>
> David Spidley wrote:
>
> >Hello,
> >I have a client mounting an nfs share.
>>
> >A simple "ls" is taking 90 seconds.
> >If I disable sorting with "ls -f", it takes 3 seconds.
>>
>>
> It disables a lot more than sorting. Unless you've done something to
> stop it, ls is an alias for "ls --color=tty" which will do a stat(2) on
> all the files. Does "/bin/ls" or "\ls" work quickly?
>
> >So it looks like sorting is to blame - but it isn't:
>> ls > /tmp/file takes 1 second.
>>
> >Why?
>>
>>
> Re-directing to a file will also turn the colour off.
>
> [Look at that -- I'm quite happy to use "color" for programs and scripts
> but as soon as I want to use it as a word I fall back to the English
> spelling and I start getting confused.]
>
> jch
>
Ah! Excellent - you're right, the alias was causing the slow down. Thanks :)
Can I ask why /bin/ls -l remains slow (5.5 minutes), and why a perl 'glob "*"'
(3 minutes) of the directory is also slow?
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