[Thunar-dev] thunar speed

[N. Volbers]

Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> Broeisi Rast wrote:
> 
>>I noticed the same thing.
>>Opening my /usr/bin directory which contains about 2128 files took
>>thunar about 20 seconds. Rox opened it in 3 seconds.
>>
>>Odd...
> 
> 
> 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.