Re: incredibly slow file listing script on windoze 7 pro 4 core 64 bit

2010-09-11 Thread mike marchywka
On 9/8/10, Eric Blake ebl...@russianhut.comie wrote: On 09/08/2010 09:24 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: To somewhat sooth your curiousity, Windows (or perhaps it's more accurate to say NTFS) ain't great with directories with a large number of files. I expect you would be less than impressed

Re: incredibly slow file listing script on windoze 7 pro 4 core 64 bit

2010-09-08 Thread mike marchywka
On 9/7/10, Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only...@xxx.com wrote: On 9/7/2010 12:05 PM, mike marchywka wrote: this takes a few minutes on old debian machine, taking much longer here on same data- about 19k file about 24Gb total size. Windoze finally has better perf stuff but still no help-

Re: incredibly slow file listing script on windoze 7 pro 4 core 64 bit

2010-09-08 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 9/8/2010 9:35 AM, mike marchywka wrote: On 9/7/10, Larry Hall (Cygwin)reply-to-list-only...@xxx.com wrote: On 9/7/2010 12:05 PM, mike marchywka wrote: this takes a few minutes on old debian machine, taking much longer here on same data- about 19k file about 24Gb total size. Windoze finally

Re: incredibly slow file listing script on windoze 7 pro 4 core 64 bit

2010-09-08 Thread Eric Blake
On 09/08/2010 09:24 AM, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: To somewhat sooth your curiousity, Windows (or perhaps it's more accurate to say NTFS) ain't great with directories with a large number of files. I expect you would be less than impressed with the performance of of 'dir' in 'cmd.exe' in the same

incredibly slow file listing script on windoze 7 pro 4 core 64 bit

2010-09-07 Thread mike marchywka
this takes a few minutes on old debian machine, taking much longer here on same data- about 19k file about 24Gb total size. Windoze finally has better perf stuff but still no help- one core at 25 pct all kernel time disk not exactly busy. All the time is in the ls loop not the find command. Now

Re: incredibly slow file listing script on windoze 7 pro 4 core 64 bit

2010-09-07 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 9/7/2010 12:05 PM, mike marchywka wrote: this takes a few minutes on old debian machine, taking much longer here on same data- about 19k file about 24Gb total size. Windoze finally has better perf stuff but still no help- one core at 25 pct all kernel time disk not exactly busy. All the time