Bug#941130: thunar: delay/hang at startup with lots of files in XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR

[Tim Marston <tim@ed.am>]

Hi,

On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 08:36:38PM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> Does it depend on the content of the folder? Is there a specific file in that
> folder which makes Thunar choke on it or something?

With 4000 files totalling ~4GB, startup time is ~2s.
With 8000 files totalling ~8GB, startup time is ~4s.
With 16000 files totalling ~16GB, startup time is ~8s.

Therefore, delay seems proportional to the number of files.

With 4000 files totalling ~4GB, startup time is ~2s.
With 4000 files totalling ~8GB, startup time is ~2s.
With 4000 files totalling ~16GB, startup time is ~2s.
With 4000 files totalling ~32GB, startup time is ~2s.

Therefore, delay doesn't seem proportional to file size, particularly.

With 16000 html files (~65MB), startup time is ~7s.
With 16000 text files (~65MB), startup time is ~7s.
With 16000 pdf files (~1.9GB), startup time is ~5s.
With 16000 png files (~257MB), startup time is ~5s.

Therefore, file type does seem also to have an effect.

> Does stracing the Thunar process gives a bit of information?

Strace output just shows Thunar ploughing through the files!

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Tim Marston
ed.am