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Re: ls -lR too slow
- From: Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 07:27:38 +0000
- Subject: Re: ls -lR too slow
- References: <49C1EE41.5080808@princeton.edu>
Vinod Gupta wrote:
> When I do "ls -lR /cygdrive/z" it takes very long.
> There are only about 700 files on Z: totalling only 100 MB. When I
> monitor network counters on laptop, I see that a whopping 90 MB were
> downloaded for a payload (file list) of only 60 KB. Out of curiosity, I
> did the same experiment between two linux machines configured as NFS
> client+server.
Perhaps more instructive would be to compare with typing "DIR Z:" in a DOS
prompt. How much time does that take, and how much network traffic does it
generate, by comparison?
cheers,
DaveK
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