Matthias Buelow <mkb@mukappabeta.de>  wrote:
 > So, to sum it up, next time someone moans "ls -l in a dir with ~1000
 > entries takes 30s to complete!" the first thing you ought to ask is,
 > are in there files with each a different owner, and are the user names
 > served via NIS?

Actually, when I first read about this I had considered that but I don't
think you mentioned "-l" so that's what made me dismiss this.  It's possible
I didn't read closely enough but it was really the first thought that
flashed through my mind...

Anyway, glad it's solved.