Re: stat64() calls of files in underlaying directories?

"Guus Houtzager - Luna.nl" <[email protected]> Tue, 12 Jul 2005 19:21:14 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gqview.user
Organization	Luna.nl BV
Message-ID	<1121188874.2662.56.camel@localhost>

Hi,

On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 12:44 -0400, John Ellis wrote:
> Guus Houtzager wrote:
> > 
> > What happens is if I'm looking at /pictures/holiday/2004 and switch
> > to /pictures/holiday/2005 gqview starts doing stat64() calls (confirmed
> > with strace -p on the process) on all files in /pictures. That takes
> > more than a minute and is very annoying to say the least and happens on
> > every directory switch.
> > Any idea why gqview is doing this? More information available on
> > request.
> 
> When selecting a new folder, the folder tree view will update it's contents
> along the complete path to the new location - regardless if the time stamps for
> those folders have changed. If you have time and/or install GQview from source
> the attached patch may help. If the patch fixes this issue please indicate this
> so that I can include the patch in the next release.
> 
> (If this does not apply because you do not use the folder tree view, then
> something is definitely broken in GQview and I will need more information about
> your GQview config [~/.gqview/gqviewrc] )

Thanks for your quick respons and patch. I tried it out and it works,
somewhat. I applied your patch to the source of the debian 2.0.0
package, not the cvs version.

What happens now is that if nothing happens to the underlaying directory
(/pictures) and I switch between folders, the switch is quick, no
stat64()'s being executed. But the stat64()'s happen in this situation:
I'm watching the /pictures/holiday/2004 folder. Then I copy some files
in a shell with cp from /pictures to /pictures/holiday/2005. When that
completes, I switch in gqview to /pictures/holiday/2005. Then I see
stat64() calls on /pictures.

I think I'm using folder tree view, but I'm not sure, so I'm attaching a
small screenshot which should clear that up for you. Just to be sure
I'll also attach my gqviewrc.

> Greetings,
> John

Thanks!

PS: direct mail to you doesn't work for me because I'm not on verizon's whitelist :(
As I understand it, lot's of European ISP's aren't :(

Regards,

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gqviewrc (text/plain, 4.1 KB)

######################################################################
#                         GQview config file         version   2.0.0 #
######################################################################

##### General Options #####

layout_style: 0

layout_order: "123"

layout_view_as_icons: false

layout_view_as_tree: true

show_icon_names: true


tree_descend_folders: false

lazy_image_sync: false

update_on_time_change: true

exif_auto_rotate: true


enable_startup_path: false

startup_path: 

zoom_mode: fit
two_pass_scaling: true

zoom_to_fit_allow_expand: true


fit_window_to_image: false

limit_window_size: false

max_window_size: 100


progressive_keyboard_scrolling: false

scroll_reset_method: 0


enable_thumbnails: false

thumbnail_width: 64

thumbnail_height: 64

cache_thumbnails: false

cache_thumbnails_into_dirs: false

use_xvpics_thumbnails: true

thumbnail_spec_standard: true


local_metadata: false


sort_method: 3

sort_ascending: true

sort_case_sensitive: false


confirm_delete: false

enable_delete_key: true

safe_delete: false

safe_delete_path: "/home/guus/.gqview/trash"
safe_delete_size: 20


tools_float: false

tools_hidden: false

restore_tool_state: false

toolbar_hidden: false

mouse_wheel_scrolls: true

in_place_rename: true

open_recent_max: 10

image_cache_size_max: 10

thumbnail_quality: 0

zoom_quality: 2

dither_quality: 2

zoom_increment: 5

enable_read_ahead: true

display_dialogs_under_mouse: false

black_window_background: false

fullscreen_screen: -1

fullscreen_clean_flip: false

fullscreen_disable_saver: true

fullscreen_above: false

custom_similarity_threshold: 99


##### Slideshow Options #####

slideshow_delay: 15.0

slideshow_random: false

slideshow_repeat: false


##### Filtering Options #####

show_dotfiles: false

disable_filtering: true

filter_ext: "png" ".png" "The PNG image format"
filter_ext: "jpeg" ".jpeg;.jpe;.jpg" "The JPEG image format"
filter_ext: "gif" ".gif" "The GIF image format"
filter_ext: "ico" ".ico;.cur" "The ICO image format"
filter_ext: "ani" ".ani" "The ANI image format"
filter_ext: "ras" ".ras" "The Sun raster image format"
filter_ext: "xpm" ".xpm" "The XPM image format"
filter_ext: "tiff" ".tiff;.tif" "The TIFF image format"
filter_ext: "pnm" ".pnm;.pbm;.pgm;.ppm" "The PNM/PBM/PGM/PPM image format family"
filter_ext: "bmp" ".bmp" "The BMP image format"
filter_ext: "wbmp" ".wbmp" "The WBMP image format"
filter_ext: "xbm" ".xbm" "The XBM image format"
filter_ext: "tga" ".tga;.targa" "The Targa image format"
filter_ext: "svg" ".svg;.svgz" "Scalable Vector Graphics"
filter_ext: "pcx" ".pcx" "The PCX image format"
filter_ext: "wmf" ".wmf" "Windows Metafile"

##### External Programs #####
# Maximum of 8 programs (external_1 through external 8)
# format: external_n: "menu name" "command line"

external_1: "The Gimp" "gimp-remote-1.3 -n %f"
external_2: "Electric Eyes" "eeyes"
external_3: "XV" "xv"
external_4: "Xpaint" "xpaint %f"
external_5: "Xine" "xine -p %f"
external_6: "Rhythmbox" "rhythmbox %f"
external_7: "Mplayer" "gmplayer %f"
external_8: "" ""
external_9: "Rotate jpeg clockwise" "%vif jpegtran -rotate 90 -copy all -outfile %p_tmp %p; then mv %p_tmp %p;else rm %p_tmp;fi"
external_10: "Rotate jpeg counterclockwise" "%vif jpegtran -rotate 270 -copy all -outfile %p_tmp %p; then mv %p_tmp %p;else rm %p_tmp;fi"

##### Collection Options #####

rectangular_selections: false


##### Window Positions #####

restore_window_positions: true


main_window_x: 44

main_window_y: 30

main_window_width: 1141

main_window_height: 917

main_window_maximized: false

float_window_x: 64

float_window_y: 0

float_window_width: 224

float_window_height: 450

float_window_divider: 200

divider_position_h: 284

divider_position_v: 248

######################################################################
#                      end of GQview config file                     #
######################################################################

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