ls -l takes a forever to finish.

[Mark Evans]

No we are not using NIS.

it is a large directory i am listing.  actually it is the /usr/home 
directory, and is probably the largest on the system. However "ls -l" runs 
for close to six minutesand spends the 10 seconds scrolling the screen with 
the results.  so i wait ls to start showing the results for about 5 and a 
half minutes.   Even on a older and much slower system i've never seen it 
talk more than 15 seconds to complete.


Thanks
Mark

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kris Kennaway" <kris at FreeBSD.org>
To: "Mark Evans" <mbe2 at bayou.com>
Cc: <questions at FreeBSD.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 5:13 PM
Subject: Re: ls -l takes a forever to finish.


> Mark Evans wrote:
>> I'm using FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE.  When I run "ls -l" it takes forever for 
>> the it to complete. top shows that the "ls -l" command uses about 98% of 
>> the CPU doing the time.  If I run "ls"  I do not experience any problem. 
>> anyone have any ideas?
>
> Are you using NIS for user/group lookups?
>
> Is it a large directory that is taking a long time to sort?
>
> Kris
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