Well, this looks rather strange. As expected, settings the variable causes large changes as it removes a lot of lstat calls and also removes the color codes fro

Well, this looks rather strange. As expected, settings the variable causes large changes as it removes a lot of lstat calls and also removes the color codes from the writes. So there seems to be no obvious explanation, why it becomes slower when doing less... # du -sh logfile_nfs* 1.7M logfile_nfs 668K logfile_nfs_exported However, the strace -c output looks kinda different: Without modifying the variable: https://bin.disroot.org/?149fa91c08b27312#0w9O6BAWNEEC4SUXEbtark/TMSDm9gT+jT0OK5ME8fE= https://bin.disroot.org/?149fa91c08b27312#0w9O6BAWNEEC4SUXEb... With setting the variable: https://bin.disroot.org/?149fa91c08b27312#0w9O6BAWNEEC4SUXEbtark/TMSDm9gT+jT0OK5ME8fE= https://bin.disroot.org/?149fa91c08b27312#0w9O6BAWNEEC4SUXEb...