I so agree with richardbrucebaxter on this. When I switched all my
computers from Windows 98 to Linux in the late 90's this was the biggest
practical difference. Now I know its not Linux or the file system but
Nautilus that is the problem. Its exactly the same today, load up a
large file on a windows system, bang its in your face, right there. On
Ubuntu, it several minutes wait. This is a daily thing for me.
I hear all the arguments that say its bad practice to have large
directories, but sorry I need to do this and if other file managers can
cope why not Nautilus?
There are many avenues of attack, from better caching, to mult-thread,
to prioritization, but this should be fixed. Now we have many file
systems that are as fast as they get in this situation, Nautilus just
sits on the sidelines, its a terrible shame.
Linked to this, the whole thumbnail mechanism in Nautilus is broken,
because thumbnails are stored in one place per PC, when its obviously
better to store locally as windows does, so that if you make a copy of a
dirctory with a new name this metadata just gets copied and does not
have to be recalculated. It should also be that tif you move a
directory, there is no need to recalculate thumbnail metadata.
Most importantly, some of these things (large directories, local
thumbnails etc) are important to some people and not important to
others. Nautilus should be easily configurable to meet the needs of
users and users who need this stuff should be catered for, not told that
your use case is unimportant or bad practice, this argument is a
circular tautology (defines itself to be true).
Please, Nautilus is a central part of the usability of Linux, please
could it not be stuck in the 90's ? Please could this be given some
priority, even if it is "hard".
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/869793
Title:
Nautilus is very slow when opening folders with many files
Status in Nautilus:
Invalid
Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Opening folders with many files takes a long time with Nautilus, to the point
it becomes unusable for folders with more than 5K files.
I've measured the time it takes for folders with different amount of files to
open with Nautilus and Gnome Commander. It is ~6 times faster with GC on
average. In folders with ~20K files, it takes 30s with nautilus versus 6! with
GC.
With Nautilus
~3500 files tales 6 seconds
~7000 files takes 18 seconds
~15000 files takes 22 seconds
~2 files takes 30 seconds
With Gnome Commander
~3500 files tales <1 second
~7000 files takes 1.5 seconds
~15000 files takes 3 seconds
~2 files takes 6 seconds
These are mostly small dicom files (MRI images). I am using a 8 core 3.4Ghz
and 16Gigs of RAM with Ubuntu 11.04 64-bits.
Also, of course, things like selecting all files and copying them around is
absurdly slow and makes nautilus unusable... but that would be another bug
report (?).
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