<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Camelia Botez <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:camelia.botez@weizmann.ac.il" target="_blank">camelia.botez@weizmann.ac.il</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I’m talkibg about /usr/local/src that is on /dev/sda2 under / and indeed it is the partition I ran fsck.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">In other directories ls works fine.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Yes the
</span>shell does manage to read the directory contents , but in one subdirectory containing no more than 24 files ls –ltr gets stuck.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">No the ls command is not in D state (if I’m not mistaking its state is S).<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><br>
</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Follow up question, then:<br><br>Are you performing those operations over network? (and especially - over VPN/WAN/Tunnel)? If so, what you're describing sounds like the output packet sizes may be too large for your path's MTU. If you take the network interface you're coming through MTU and reduce it, to, let's say, 1300, does the problem persist? (/sbin/ifconfig eth0 mtu 1300) <br>
<br>-- Shimi<br></div></div></div>