On Thu, 09 Nov 2017 18:21:59 +0000, Ralph Corderoy said: > On my normal slow machine on ext4, reading the current directory of `.', > `..', and files {1..480832} takes > > $ time ls -f >/dev/null > > real 0m1.184s > user 0m0.599s > sys 0m0.585s > $
> Both have had the command previously run recently, but then manipulation > of an nmh folder tends to keep the interesting data in memory. Yeah, the pain is in the cache-cold state. Especially if you're still in the spinning-rust world.
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