Hi Benedikt, >> >>For /usr/bin, that's the expected behaviour, and easy to explain. ROX >>doesn't do magic lookups on the MIME database, while Thunar follows the >>MIME spec (with one small exception) and does the magic lookup if none >>of the glob patterns match. Since Linux binaries usually don't include >>an extension, no glob patterns will match, and Thunar will have to open >>each file and check the magic patterns. Looking into 2128 files for the >>first time can take up to 20 seconds, depending on the systems I/O >>performance. >> >>Benedikt > > > This might be the explanation for the slowness I observed, since the > directory was on a smb share mounted via smbfs and thus all files were > probably executable. I will check that tomorrow when I am back at that > computer. > > Niklas. >
Confirmed. The slow directory was a smbfs mounted share with all files marked as executable. If I copy it over to my local hard drive, everything is veeeery fast. Niklas. _______________________________________________ Thunar-dev mailing list [email protected] http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev
