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RE: B18,B19 (NT 4.0): gnu tools are slow
- To: "gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com" <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>, "'Jonathan Payne'" <jpayne at marimba dot com>
- Subject: RE: B18,B19 (NT 4.0): gnu tools are slow
- From: Sergey Okhapkin <sos at prospect dot com dot ru>
- Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 14:16:15 +0400
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.
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