"find" taking a long time

Joe Buehler jbuehler@hekimian.com
Thu Jun 27 09:23:00 GMT 2002


Eric J. Holtman wrote:

> This is all on an NTFS formatted disk, and seems to happen with
> either the 1.3.9 or 1.3.11-3 cygwin.dll.
> 
> I have a directory with 40000+ files, and I get the following behavior:

That's pretty huge, and might be the source of the problem.  I don't know
about Windows, but UNIX systems generally do not perform well with such huge
directories.

Joe Buehler




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