Are you trying to run autocompletion on an nfs mount? Are you using ''ls'' to autocomplete and if so did you run \ls /path/to/dir .. ?
Maybe worth to mention the bash version you are using. Op do 6 aug. 2020 19:53 schreef George R Goffe <grgo...@yahoo.com>: > Hi, > > I apologize for bothering you with this question. > > I have several directories on a system with > 300k files. When I use > filename completion bash freezes for over a minute depending on the number > of files. I'm pretty sure that bash has to read the directory to do the > completion but the read appears to be uninterruptible. Is this a bug? > > Again, I apologize for bothering you with this. > > Best regards, > > George... > >