From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
To: Timothy Reaves <treaves@y11a165.neo.rr.com>,
cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Time taken for ls -la --color=yes
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 19:45:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19990308141507.22399.rocketmail@send105.yahoomail.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <19990331194500.JmtRMbdbV6pqRIlWJQy8uGBny_2aoZ7ruJWfuSBOm2g@z> (raw)
---Timothy Reaves <treaves@y11a165.neo.rr.com> wrote:
>
> >> When I execute this on my machine, a dual PII 266 with 192
meg
> >> memory & a Seagate Cheeta 10,000rpm hard drive, with three other
> >> applications running (Netscape, mail, a data conversion app), it
> >> takes a good 1.5 to 2 seconds to display a directory with fewer
than
> >> 60 entries.
> >>
> >> Is this normal?
> >
> >Just the first time, or every time?
>
> For a directory with 83 entries, the first display took 2.5
seconds. After that the time was 'normal'. Dir under a DOS windows
has no perceptable delay.
If you add the color or F switches then the CYGWIN1.DLL has to
determine the type of file. It will be opening every regular file
listed and reading a line from the file in order to determine the type
of the file. You can imagine the overhead involved in this.
==
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next reply other threads:[~1999-03-31 19:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-03-08 6:13 Earnie Boyd [this message]
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Earnie Boyd
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1999-03-08 8:41 Oelke, Dan
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Oelke, Dan
1999-03-08 8:34 Timothy Reaves
1999-03-08 9:09 ` Sebastien Carpe
[not found] ` < 36E40422.157007C1@atos-group.com >
1999-03-08 10:26 ` Henry J. Cobb
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Sebastien Carpe
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Henry J. Cobb
[not found] ` <199903081826.NAA16303@acestes-fe0.ultra.net>
1999-03-08 10:38 ` Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
[not found] ` < 3.0.5.32.19990308133351.009bb950@pop.ma.ultranet.com >
1999-03-08 11:29 ` Fergus Henderson
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Fergus Henderson
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Timothy Reaves
1999-03-08 5:45 Timothy Reaves
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Timothy Reaves
1999-03-07 18:31 N8TM
1999-03-31 19:45 ` N8TM
1999-03-07 17:39 Timothy Reaves
[not found] ` < 199903080144.UAA10167@y11a165.neo.rr.com >
1999-03-07 18:45 ` DJ Delorie
1999-03-31 19:45 ` DJ Delorie
1999-03-31 19:45 ` Timothy Reaves
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