From: "Paul Maier" <svn-user@web.de>
To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: How to make "ls" as quick as a Windows "dir"?
Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2011 21:38:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <99C327BE35E54B81B97E7DCAF53941A2@sulzer.de> (raw)
Hello,
for my cygwin installation (cygwin-1.7.7-1, downloaded 2010-11-02, on a Windows XP SP 3),
the time for a "ls -l" to complete is much slower than the time for a "cmd /C dir",
although similar information gets displayed.
Does anybody know a setting, maybe a flag to "ls", to make the ls as quick as the Windows dir?
On a local drive, both, ls and Windows dir, are quite quick. The difference comes up,
when working on a slow network drive (Q:).
I took these times:
Example 1: Windows dir completes in only 13.3 seconds
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/cygdrive/c/Dokumente und Einstellungen/test2/Desktop/cy>time cmd /C dir 'Q:\Angebot'
Datenträger in Laufwerk Q: ist Data
Volumeseriennummer: XXX
Verzeichnis von Q:\Angebot
04.02.2011 21.10 <DIR> .
04.02.2011 21.10 <DIR> ..
03.02.2011 14.29 775.168 AnXXX
03.02.2011 13.50 231.936 EAXXX
28.01.2011 10.11 60.928 PrXXX
3 Datei(en) 1.068.032 Bytes
2 Verzeichnis(se), 880.856.702.976 Bytes frei
0.015u 0.015s 0:13.33 0.1% 0+0k 0+0io 1219pf+0w
Example 2: cygwin ls takes 53.9 seconds
---------------------------------------
For the same drive and same directory, Cygwin's ls takes 53.9 seconds,
that's 4 times as much than the Windows dir:
/cygdrive/c/Dokumente und Einstellungen/test2/Desktop/cy>time ls -l /cygdrive/q/Angebot/
insgesamt 816
---------- 1 ???????? mkgroup 775168 3. Feb 14:29 AnXXX
---------- 1 ???????? mkgroup 231936 3. Feb 13:50 EAXXX
---------- 1 ???????? mkgroup 60928 28. Jan 10:11 PrXXX
0.030u 0.077s 0:53.91 0.1% 0+0k 0+0io 2026pf+0w
Does anybody have an idea?
Thanks
Paul
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-06 21:38 Paul Maier [this message]
2011-02-07 3:10 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2011-02-08 22:26 ` AW: " Paul Maier
2011-02-08 23:18 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2011-02-09 11:31 ` AW: " Paul Maier
2011-02-09 16:12 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
2011-02-13 23:40 Paul Maier
2011-02-14 3:15 ` Larry Hall (Cygwin)
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