On Nov 27, 2007, at 1:53 PM, Mark Evans wrote:
> I'm using FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE. When I run "ls -l" it takes forever
> for the it to complete. top shows that the "ls -l" command uses
> about 98% of the CPU doing the time. If I run "ls" I do not
> experience any problem. anyone have any ideas?
>
> Thanks
> Mark
That's incredibly strange because ls is a simple program... Could
you attach gdb to ls and find out where it's eating up all of your
CPU time?
-Garrett