Re: zsh spinning for ages when I hit tab on directory

[Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2011.11.08 at 14:10 +0100, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> Zsh is busy spinning for minutes when I hit tab at the end of an
> directory. For example consider:
> ~ % /usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.0/man/man1/
> man1 % l
> total 1748
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root     72 Nov  8 13:37 .
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root     28 May 27 15:33 ..
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root  42888 Nov  8 13:37 cpp.1
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root 824844 Nov  8 13:37 g++.1
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root 824844 Nov  8 13:37 gcc.1
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root  24554 Nov  8 13:37 gcov.1
> 
> When position the cursor after the man1/ of 
> ~ % /usr/share/gcc-data/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.7.0/man/man1/
> and hit tab, zsh starts spinning:
> 
>  96.79%  libzsh-4.3.12.so   [.] 0x7185f
>   0.12%  [kernel]           [k] handle_irq_event_percpu
>   0.07%  libFLAC.so.8.2.0   [.] FLAC__bitreader_read_rice_signed_block  

When I zoom into zsh with "perf top" I see:
 69.44%  zsh              [.] patmatch
 14.15%  zsh              [.] charrefinc 
  9.44%  zsh              [.] charnext
  6.66%  zsh              [.] charref 
...

-- 
Markus