James Richard Tyrer wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> Is it normal that Dolphin is so slow to open directories? For example, >> when I open /usr/lib in it, it takes about 30 seconds to get the >> contents listed (in which time Dolphin is completely frozen). >> >> ___________________________________________________ >> This message is from the kde mailing list. >> Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. >> Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. >> More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. >> >> > No, this is not normal. The time to open a directory is going to depend > on how much is in the directory and whether or not this triggers a VM > swap which depends on how much memory you have as well as how fast your > hardware is. > > Does it still take a long time to open a directory with only a few files > in it? > > My I have do some test, and I have use tmpfs, and no swap. The command ls work perfectly, and konqueror after F5 too is slow but only with big folder, no problem for my with little folder. I boot over nfs, the server have 16GB of ddr2 and raid system, and my pc have 8GB of ddr2 with phenom 2 @ 3GHz (but it's slow). ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.