Performance of "ls -F"

Achim Gratz Stromeko@NexGo.DE
Thu Jan 21 18:10:00 GMT 2016


I am finding a large performance gap between plain "ls" and "ls -F" in a
directory with many files on a network share (NetApp disguised as NTFS if
that matters).  This has been there for quite a while, I've just now
realized what the reason was (I have "ls -F" as an alias for "ls" in my
interactive shells).  In a directory with 1300 files, a plain "ls" completes
in 0.3s, while "ls -F" requires about 95s.  Determining the file class seems
to require around 70...90ms per file, which I can confirm also for
directories with a lot less files.  What's involved in that determination
that takes such a long time?

Regards,
Achim.


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