Re: Bewildered: ls/cp/du take ages

2002-11-29 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Friday, Nov 29, 2002, at 09:37 US/Pacific, Marc Schneiders wrote: I have a machine that now shows this behaviour: ls cp du take ages on a directory of 5 MB of (small) files (dir = /etc). And eat the CPU. What is the matter? Shitty RAM? No. I would suspect that the filesystem is corrupt.

Bewildered: ls/cp/du take ages

2002-11-29 Thread Marc Schneiders
I have a machine that now shows this behaviour: ls cp du take ages on a directory of 5 MB of (small) files (dir = /etc). And eat the CPU. What is the matter? Shitty RAM? Top output doing "ll /etc" last pid: 73939; load averages: 1.02, 0.95, 0.60 up 12+18:01:24 18:34:10 28 processes: 2 ru