Um ... yeah ...

zelmak

devel-bash% time ls | wc -l
 659522

real  3m2.863s
user  0m24.167s
sys   0m0.358s

For those of you not UNIX savvy, that's just over 3 wall-clock minutes to list and count 659,522 files in a single directory.
Granted, those files are in a Network File System (NFS) share.
And using LDAP as the user/group/password authentication.
Fun.

error

@zelmak said:

659,522 files in a single directory

TRWTF

morbiuswilters

@joe.edwards said:

@zelmak said:
659,522 files in a single directory

TRWTF

Yeah, no jokin'. 660k files, over NFS, with LDAP? Yeah, it's going to be slow..

ender

@morbiuswilters said:

Yeah, no jokin'. 660k files, over NFS, with LDAP? Yeah, it's going to be slow.

Given all that, 3 minutes is fast.

Quincy5

On the servers on my previous job (also with an NFS storage and LDAP authentication) it is even more than 1 minute for 2000 files. Too bad I never timed it and posted it here.

@morbiuswilters said:

@joe.edwards said:
@zelmak said:
659,522 files in a single directory
TRWTF

Yeah, no jokin'. 660k files, over NFS, with LDAP? Yeah, it's going to be slow..

Yes, but the bigger WTF is 660k files in a single directory. How about a little organization.

Ben L.

@El_Heffe said:

@morbiuswilters said:
@joe.edwards said:
@zelmak said:
659,522 files in a single directory

TRWTF

Yeah, no jokin'. 660k files, over NFS, with LDAP? Yeah, it's going to be slow..
Yes, but the bigger WTF is 660k files in a single directory. How about a little organization.

Maybe the files are all in different folders, but someone needed them all at once, so they copied them to an easier-to-find location.