`ls` is very slow where massive lstat() are consuming very long time

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Issue

  • ls is very slow where massive lstat() are consuming very long time
# time ls /path/to/dir
 ...
real    1m3.233s
user    0m0.071s
sys     0m0.701s

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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