Simple bash script is slow to execute - appears to be time spent starting commands like ls

[Reini Urban]

2009/9/2 Larry Adams:
> The problem as I see it is Windows.  For example, only 10 iterations caused
> over 65k file and registry reads.  I have attached the output from
> SysInternals Process Explorer for your edification.  The only fix for this
> is Linux.  I still use Windows for development and "LOVE" Cygwin.  But
> Windows can't be fixed.

The Windows filesystems (FAT, NTFS) are notoriously slow with a large
number of files in a dir. 1000- 5000 files seems to be a limit for stat().
access() is also much slower if you have inherited ACL's or large ACL lists

Does it run significantly faster with less then say 500 files?
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Reini Urban
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