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Heavy disk load/cpu usage when traversing deep directories with many files on ntfs-3g #70

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Browse to an ntfs-3g volume
2. Find a folder with 5 or 6 levels of directories underneath with 1000+ files
3. Select that folder and the entire system will hang for several seconds
or more.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Minimal delay while the directory is parsed.  Many seconds and the entire
system freezing is unpleasant.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
0.6.4 on Linux Mint 7 (2.6.28-15-generic 64 bit) with ntfs-3g 2009.4.4 driver.

Please provide any additional information below.

This could be an ntfs-3g issue.  However it seems like maybe the applet is
trying to parse whole directory trees at once instead of just what
directory is highlighted at the time.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by merc...@gmail.com on 4 Nov 2009 at 7:35

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
...it's the synchronous IO still :-( There's no way around the delay in reading 
the
file system, but the UI should not block while this happens.

Original comment by bertol...@gmail.com on 5 Nov 2009 at 5:32