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From: e07@nikhefh.nikhef.nl (Eric Wassenaar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: SR10.1.p bsd/sysv ls -l hangs for large files
Message-ID: <611@nikhefh.nikhef.nl>
Date: 18 Dec 89 09:09:54 GMT
Organization: Nikhef-H, Amsterdam (the Netherlands).
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If you do a 'ls -l' for a directory containing some very big files,
the command may take very long, or may never finish. It seems to be
dependent on the size of the files.
It is not working for both bsd and sysv. /com/ld -a works ok.

As a side effect, for the duration of such hanging ls, the rgy daemon
becomes unavailable for servicing requests. Effectively this means
that your whole machine comes to a grinding halt. And not only your
machine, also a remote (non-apollo) machine that has your filesystems
mounted via nfs is affected. (See nfs articles to be posted hereafter).

My god, what is going on here? Isn't ls just doing a stat() of a file?

What sort of system is this if I cannot even use 'ls' ?

Eric Wassenaar
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