ls -l

[Steve Mawer]

In article <21519 at adm.BRL.MIL> SIMSN%NUSDISCS.BITNET at cunyvm.cuny.edu writes:
> What could be the possible reasons that cause ls -l
> to be slow, i.e. one line at a time at 1 sec interval?

On AIX (spit!) I've found that this happens when the user and/or group IDs
don't exist in the password and/or group files.  With lots of entries in
the password file it takes a looooooong time to not find a name.

You can tell if this is your problem by checking the `ls' output - are
there user names or numbers against the files?  If numbers, change the
owner and/or group as necessary to an existing one.

This may (or may not) occur on other systems, I've not noticed it on Ultrix
or Xenix, but I could have just been lucky :-).

Hope this helps.
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