On 7/30/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Wow. I've never had a single directory with 12000 files. What file > dialog have you tried that does work? How do KDE file dialogs handle > it?
Well, my sylpheed mai-archive directory has almost 33K files in it (I mostly use gmail these days anyway). Still, from a shell, it doesn't take a whole long time on my box (an Athlon 1000) to list the contents: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.Mail/temp/inbox$ time (ls -l | wc -l) 32287 real 0m1.134s user 0m0.744s sys 0m0.352s Any "file picker" will take at least that much time - if not a lot more - to stat() all the files and get the metadata info, thne it has to present all the data (in fairness, ls -l takes more time than plain 'ls'. Opening up krusader and having it show the same directory does take a bit of time - at least a few seconds, probably more, although I didn't time it. But at least it doesn't hang. Doug. > > >
