Re: Accelerating directory's content's viewing: how, is directory is huge?

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 05/18/2010 02:15 PM, Merciadri Luca wrote:
> Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> > On Tuesday 18 May 2010 13:16:27 Merciadri Luca wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have many media files in some specific directory (folder, call it as
> > > you want). Loading the folder takes ~30 sec., even if I am using quite
> > > fast HDDs, etc. They're all on the same partition. I have disabled
> > > previewing, or thumbnails.
> > >
> > > How can I do to make this process faster?

Don't use a GUI tool that's designed for small subdirectories.

> > Slow to ls?  reiserfs, xfs, btrfs, or the dir_index option and hash_alg
> > extended option of ext3.
> >
> > Is the directory fast to ls, but slow to render in a GUI?  Problem is likely
> > with the GUI.
> Sorry, it is only slow to GUI (nautilus).
> > How many files?
> ~25,000.

Don't use Nautilus, or reorganize your directory structure.

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