Tuning ls, ls -l, find ., find . -ls performance for very large dirs (60000+ files/dir)

[Mark Liam Brown]

Greetings!

Are there tuning variables to improve ls, ls -l, find ., find . -ls
performance for very large dirs?

If we have a SMB dir with 60000+ entries a simple ls -l can take MANY
minutes (22+mins), while cmd.exe dir just floods the terminal with
results immediately.

Mark
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IT Infrastructure Consultant
Windows, Linux