Greg Oster writes:

>Can you try the same thing under csh?  What I really want to see is the 
>IO values and page-fault values.

yes, of course...

% time \ls>/dev/null
0.0u 0.0s 0:00.00 0.0% 0+0k 0+0io 0pf+0w

% time \ls -l >/dev/null
13.0u 16.2s 0:32.46 90.4% 0+0k 0+3io 0pf+0w
% !!
time \ls -l > /dev/null
12.7u 16.7s 0:37.64 78.3% 0+0k 0+3io 0pf+0w
% !!
time \ls -l > /dev/null
12.6u 16.0s 0:37.31 76.9% 0+0k 0+4io 0pf+0w


>Also: the entries in this directory are all files, yes?

No, they're all directories.

>>     0.03s real 42949672.95s user     0.01s system
>Woah! What a value!  497 days just do do an ls! :)

Heh... haven't seen this when sending the mail :)

--mkb