Delay in "ls"

[p at dirac dot org (Peter Jay Salzman)]

There appears to be a stochastic delay in the "ls" program.  I used bash's
time function to time how long it takes for ls to do its job (output of "ls"
suppressed):

real   m10.492s    user   0m0.030s    sys   0m0.030s
real   m 0.074s    user   0m0.030s    sys   0m0.062s
real   m 0.075s    user   0m0.046s    sys   0m0.030s
real   m 8.641s    user   0m0.046s    sys   0m0.015s
real   m 0.072s    user   0m0.030s    sys   0m0.046s
real   m 0.072s    user   0m0.030s    sys   0m0.046s
real   m 0.074s    user   0m0.046s    sys   0m0.046s
real   m 0.077s    user   0m0.045s    sys   0m0.046s
real   m10.854s    user   0m0.030s    sys   0m0.046s

It's just long enough and just often enough to be really annoying.  I have
ls aliased to alias "ls='ls -F --color'", but the delay can happen even when
I do "\ls".

I'm attaching cygcheck output and an strace of ls.

Any help of reducing or eliminating this delay would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
Pete

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