Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: nautilus
Hi
I have been using Ubuntu at least since Dapper, and always experienced
varying degrees of slowness in nautilus, be it right after a reboot like
with Hardy for me, or only after a few hours of somewhat intensive file
browsing/management. Perhaps Feisty was the fastest for me in this
regard, and the only one which I had as fresh install (excepting user
files), even Dapper I dist-upgraded it straight from a fresh ubuntu 5.10
install to one of the later Dapper betas. Hardy has been the one with
the worst performance from nautilus, for me at least.
OK, so I am aware most people have no performance problems with
nautilus, but if you search ubuntuforums.org for post titles mentioning
nautilus you will see a lot of them are about poor performance/slowness
in nautilus.
Steps to reproduce this 'fix':
'Normal' behaviour:
- Nautilus takes more than a few seconds to start responding (while
freezing all open nautilus windows) when the user changes directories,
regardless if the user is changing to an empty directory, one full of pictures
or directories. (This has nothing to do with reading and displaying cached
thumbnails, that comes *after* the nautilus had stopped responding.)
Reproducing the fix:
- For best results, find a folder that doesn't take to long after the
'normal' nautilus change dir freeze to stop loading, i.e., the red stop button
in nautilus turns gray instantly. A directory which contains only a few dozen
folders and nothing else is ideal.
- Change into a sub folder that as at least one file renamable by you,
or create a file yourself
- Now, create a file, or rename an existing one from the context menu
-> 'Rename', you don't need to actually change anything in the name, but just
leave the inline editable lable as if you were just trying to come up with a
name for the file, but don't touch it!
- With name lable for that file still in edit mode, click on the up
directory button in nautilus
Result:
- Nautilus changes to the parent directory and finishes loading it,
instantly! Impossible! :)
Expected Result:
- It would take more than a couple of seconds to change directories.
Would it possible please to find out how to reproduce this 'erroneous'
behaviour with regular usage? :)
** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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(very) strange fix for slow change directory performance some people experience
(could help find a fix?)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/230273
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