Re: [GNOME VFS] Re: 5 second timeout thing ...

Seth Nickell <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.vfs
Message-ID <1025641017.8028.8.camel@beauty>
On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 01:33, Michael Meeks wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 15:06, Michael Meeks wrote:
> > 	This is not optimal ;-) it could even be the cause of the non-linearity
> > on large directories we see. So ... I'm wondering why there is a timeout
> > there ?
> 
> 	It transpires that this is indeed the cause of the non-linearity,
> simply disabling it means we scale to 10,000 files in a directory rather
> nicely - although that chews a fairly huge amount of memory - it also
> means I can see /dev quickly without that annoying dialog.
> 
> 	So, as Jody fixes this we need to bump the directory limit, perhaps
> double it to ~8000 ?.

If its really linear at this point, maybe more. Is there a cost
associated with specifying, say, 25,000? Does Nautilus always use more
resources when you set a higher limit or something?

-Seth


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