I used sleep function to check every 5 sec the number of files in certain directory.

now, when I run certain process that sends the files from the directory, my script slows down the process. When I stopped the script, the process was running faster again.

Is it this from the sleep function?

What do [bold]you[/bold] think?

Maybe you should check your 'script' to see what it's actually doing and to see it can be optimized.

1.) only this

function

x= 120
while (( x>0 ))
do
ls /OUTPUT |wc -l
sleep 5
let x=x-1
done