Bug#479778: 90+ seconds to open /usr/bin/

[Sven Joachim]

On 2008-06-20 15:31 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:

> I'm seeing this (or a very similar) problem as well, for instance in
> iceweasel and emacs22-gtk.  It happens when I type /usr/bin/ into the
> location bar and press enter.  In this case it took 90+ seconds of 100%
> CPU until Emacs came back to life again.  This only happens if the
> directory name is typed into the location bar directly, not if
> navigating through the directory list.

For the record, this problem had already been reported upstream:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425368.

And here's how many files I have in /usr/bin:

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| % ls -1 /usr/bin | wc -l
| 2439
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Regards,
        Sven