Here's some little known facts about the IRIX file manager, which may be of help to you. As a rule, I try to avoid opening network mounted folders in the IRIX GUI file manager. Also, I avoid opening CD-ROM folders in the GUI, or folders which have thousands of files in them, like in an animation sequence.
The IRIX interactive desktop automatically maintains a cache of files for all directories viewed in the GUI. It can get huge, and slow your computer down when this happens. This also causes the login times to get longer, and longer as it times out looking for broken links, and reporting errors. I chased this problem for some time, as I realized that whenever I accessed a CD-ROM, and then removed it, my login times would take 2 minutes! Depending on the version of IRIX you're running, you may have to clean your desktop cache. See man typeCache which tells you how to clean this periodically. I have a script that I used which cleans the desktop junk, but keeps my preferences. If anyone wants it, just email me and I'll send it to you in a private email as this is getting off-topic for the Sharity list. Brian ------------------ Brian Hoard [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.bhhstudio.com ------------------------------------- 9/20/2002 7:55:41 AM, Jeff Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Thanks for all the fine replies guys but actually I figured out the problems >on my own. First problem was a bonehead error on my part. I was trying to >mount to the server name and not to a share (ie. to a folder on the server). >This got my mount back up and running. > >But upon getting that up I discovered the solution to the problem that >actually started all this. Meaning loss of connection to my Win2K machine. >There was a rather large TIF file (image file) in the root of my share(on >the PC), that IRIX was reporting an error on (realized this thru keeping a >console window open). I then deleted this file from the PC and after about 5 >mins of errors again from the IRIX system it cleared up and worked fine from >there. It seems that the file system in IRIX was scanning this TIF file for >some reason and this was a very slow process. This in turn froze the browser >until it was done, which of course I would be to impatient for and would >restart the machine. > >-Jeff _______________________________________________ Sharity-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe see http://at.obdev.at/mailman/listinfo/sharity-talk
