* tastethewine <for...@gimpusers.com> [09-08-19 16:35]: > >Maybe you can try using ubuntu-studio distro from a DVD drive and in > >terminal type $ rm /bin/ping* to delete ping on system start. > > > >2019-09-08 12:39 Гринуич, Mark Morin <mdmp...@gwi.net>: > > Thank you and everyone for your suggestions. Having spend the best part of > the > day running tests with a stopwatch, I now believe that there may not be one > silver bullet but that behavior seems equally aggravated by the drives > themselves. The time to fetch the directory info, in my testing so far, > varies > from a minimum of 1:45 minutes when only one drive is attached, no matter > which > drive, to 8:21 minutes when 5 external drives are attached. Though I did not > find a linear relation between the number of attached drives and the times. > If I > am re-saving a file that originated from a large drive, heavy with data, I get > the longest times. Seems obvious, yet it is still true, that my control tests > with PS showed no delay at all under any of the various circumstances. So I > am > learning what not to do. 1:45 minutes still seems pretty long, though, > compared > to less than a second with PS. All my devices seem to be in working order. > Should probably review drivers for different models. For the moment, will > develop work flows that avoid Save As.
why don't you *adjust* your work flow to utilize a local rather than attached drive and move the files to the attached drive when you have finished? -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list List address: gimp-user-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list
