[Bug 18249] Nautilus problems with 1000+ files in a folder

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------- Additional Comments From jdorsman2004 at hotmail.com  2006-01-08 02:50 UTC -------
(In reply to comment #1)

My configuration:
  Ubuntu 5.10 "The Breezy Badger"
  language: Dutch  (The Netherlands, NL)
  Nautilus 2.12.1
  kernel: K7
  CPU: AMD Athlon Thunderbird, 1.4 GHz.
  memory: 512MB
  HD: DMA enabled

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(2) Files with the first character as capital are placed before the other files.
This happens also with only a few files.

(3) The speed depends on the thumbnail (I called it 'preview' before) settings.
With all thumbnails created, the speeds depends on what is still in buffers in
memory. But I tried a few tests, with folders in the same linux reiserfs
partition (in an extended partition (hda6) of about 40GB).

Nautilus settings: a folder tree in the side panel, sorting is on name, folders
before files, icons 100%, list 50%, hidden files are not shown, listcolumns are:
Name,Size,Type,Date last used,Owner,Rights. No text in icon, Count items for
local files.

My tests:

With thumbnails off:
This takes about 1.5 ... 2.5 seconds (icon view is about 0.5 seconds faster,
100% listview is a little faster than 50% listview) for 1000+ images or
documents in a folder.

With thumbnails for local files:
  Foto: 1000 jpg files (total size 515MB):
      icon view     : 10 seconds.
      50% list view :  5 seconds.
      100% list view:  4 seconds.
  Fax: 1800 tiff files (total size 143MB):
      icon view     :  unknown, more than 5 minutes.
      50% list view :  untested.
      100% list view:  unknown, more than 5 minutes.
  Doc: 1000 doc/txt/odt files (total size 12MB):
      icon view     :  4 seconds.
      50% listview  : 33 seconds.
      100% listview :  3 seconds.

So it takes 33 seconds before I see my documents (in a sorted 50% list view).
That is strange, since I have the text in icons disabled, so it looks exactly
the same as with thumbnails off, which takes 2 or 3 seconds (also 50% size).

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I tested also with the "Ubuntu (Dapper Drake) Flight CD 2"
(1) Sorting with zero is now okay.
(2) The same, so that could be a problem with my settings.
(3) Still about 33 seconds for 50% list view with my documents folder.


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