How many files were there?
My /usr/bin contains 3168 files. An `ls -ltr' in gnome-terminal takes 9.6
seconds. In rxvt it takes 0.5 seconds. That's an 850MHz P3.
So gnome-terminal appears to be a pretty slow application. My guess would be
that something in the 2.5 kernel has exposed a marginality or an outright
bug in it.
It would be interesting to edit include/asm-i386/param.h and set HZ to 100.
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