[NTLUG:Discuss] Question 2

[Terry Henderson]

On 10/25/06, Mike Hart <just_mike_y at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Question 2:
> >
> > Using KDE, when I open up a local, nfs or smb
> > mounted directory that has 500 gigs or more of
> > files, it takes an exceptionally long time (up to
> > minutes) for the KDE window to refresh and display
> > the contents of the directory.  I am not sure what
> > is going on.  When I open the same directory using
> > MACOSX or Windows, it doesn't seem to take as long.
> > It certainly doesn't take as long using MACOSX.  Has
> > anyone else witnessed this issue?  Any thoughts on
> > how to resolve it?  I have seen this on redhat and
> > slackware based boxes using KDE 3.5.  I am using the
> > EXT3 filesystem.
>
> I find that I slower access times on directories that
> have lots of activity... That is directories that have
> many files added and deleted at different times,
> rather than just X number of files causes slow
> display. (EXT3 keeps histories, remember).  If this is
> the case for your big directory, If you occassionally
> MOVE all the files to a different directory and then
> rename the directory, you should see exponentially
> faster access times.
>
> Also, if you are using a graphic file browser, make
> sure you have the sorting set to filename A-Z before
> you switch to this directory.  Your issue may be with
> a poor sorting algorythm in the file browser and not
> so much the file system.
>
>

And in this case, the browser he is using is konqueror