[Thunar-dev] thunar speed

[N. Volbers]

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.