"One of our servers that is running on RHEL 4, has a directory that contains over 2 millions files in it and growing" Silly question: If the directory has over 2,000,000 files in it, why would you want to do an ls -l? Is there something more specific that you are trying to accomplish with a file listing? Regards, Marshall -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list