Chmouel,
> it's normal if your ls is a ls --color, ls do before a file on each
> files to see the filetype and colorise it. your perl script do only
> a opendir/readdir, it's only two call to system.
Thats it, thanks .. I did 'unalias ls' and time dropped from 10-15 mins
to 2 seconds. Then I did
If I put 30-40,000 files in one directory (to avoid the overhead of
putting and getting from some container) and do 'ls', or 'ls -1',
then my new Mandrake 6.0 machine (with plenty of memory and disk)
gets busy 98% busy for 10-15 minutes and then returns the expected
output. Same with other utili
