Nautilus Speed

limewolf · Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2002 1:53 pm Post subject: Nautilus Speed

I've found Gentoo to be much faster than Redhat on my machines, having taken some time to optimise things. I really am impressed!

I'm a Gnome user, one gripe I've had for some time (on Redhat too) is that Nautilus, especially when using the semi trasperent 'drag box' to select things is slow. I've done my best to optimise it (and gtk-pixbuf and one or two other libraries IIRC) using GCC3.2 and enabling several of GCCs MMX/3dnow/SSE etc options (depending on the machine) but it doesn't seem to make a huge difference...

So my question is this... can anyone suggest ways of getting it faster and/or does anyone out there have a suggestion for an alternative?

Thanks.. Chris.
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tyreth · Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2002 2:44 pm Post subject:

I don't have any useful suggestions but to use Nautilus 2 instead of the old one, because it's faster to change directories. but I have no idea if it's slower overall doing stuff as a result or not. Somebody else don't hesitate to answer with useful info

sisob · Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2002 6:16 pm Post subject:

Hmm,

1. turn off the sidebar
2. Turn off the location bar and use CTRL+L to call it up when you need it.
3. Turn off Thumbnailing
4. Install and enable Fam
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metalac · Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2002 6:25 pm Post subject:

well if you think about it there is only so much you can do to optimize something to gain that second or two when you try to open the app. From my experience Nautilus has always been slow and I would really like to see a machine were it acctually runs fairly fast.

mglauche · Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2002 6:35 pm Post subject:

hm, nautilus 2.0.4 runs quite a bit faster than konquerer ..

- opening new window: clean win for nautilus, takes less than 1 sec with nautilus (displaying /root), about 4-5 seconds with konquerer (gcc3.1)

- browsing small dir: no visible difference for me
- browsing image dir: nautilus seems faster + has nicer way of building page
- browsing large dir: nautilus is quite a lot slower here (in 3-4 seconds range) than konquerer (it was a > 1000 subdir containing directory, nfs mounted)

on my box (duron 1,3 ghz) nautilus 2.0.4 runs at useable speed (i.e. new window < 1 sec, change dir same), and its visually appleasing

limewolf · Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2002 6:38 pm Post subject:

There is only so much you can do, I'm just wondering if anyone else has found out anything I haven't...

I'm using Fam and don't use thumbnailing. I'm also using Nautilus 2.. etc.
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limewolf · Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2002 6:44 pm Post subject:

mglauche · Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2002 7:26 pm Post subject:

what do you mean by 'drag box' ?

Kawada · Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2002 8:33 pm Post subject:

Depending on what you use Nautilus for, I might have a suggestion for an alternative. If you just use it for simple file management, quick opening of files in the appropriate applications, and image previewing, I would suggest trying out ROX-Filer. It is extremely fast, has some nice customization options, and does all those things I listed very nicely. There is an ebuild for it too.

Kawada

limewolf · Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2002 1:48 pm Post subject:

limewolf · Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2002 1:49 pm Post subject:

mglauche · Posted: Wed Aug 28, 2002 2:29 pm Post subject:

I think the speed of this drag(rubberband-) box has quite improved over the last few minor versions .. the most problem are when moving over icons, when moving over background, even large areas, it works perfect.

Also .. it seems slower for windows, than for the desktop background

Russki · Posted: Thu Aug 29, 2002 4:25 pm Post subject:

limewolf · Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2002 8:51 pm Post subject:

sisob · Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2002 7:29 am Post subject:

limewolf · Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2002 9:37 am Post subject:

sisob · Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2002 10:54 am Post subject:

Russki · Posted: Sun Sep 01, 2002 10:02 pm Post subject:

Sunner · n00b Joined: 15 Jul 2002 Posts: 41

I've always found Nautilus to be slow, and that's on a wide varitey of boxes.
First time I used Gnome2 was on a dual P2-350 with 512 MB of RAM, I assumed it was slow cause of the relatively slow box.

Then tried it on a P3-866 with 512 MB and an IBM 60GXP, still slow, though of course not as slow as the 2x350.

Then I finally tried it on my Athlon XP 1540 MHz, with 512 MB DDR, and found it way slower than Konqueror there as well.

So, I've conluded that Nautilus simply is slow, or Im doing something wrong with Nautilus, but right with other filemanagers I've tried(including Konqueror).

But then, I've found GTK based programs to be slower than similar QT based programs in general, don't know if it's cause of GTK, user error, or cause people who code for GTK simply can't code as well as the ones that use QT, but anyways, there you have it

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Lowspirit · Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2002 11:17 pm Post subject:

Russki · Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2002 11:13 am Post subject:

sisob · Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2002 8:29 pm Post subject:

sisob · Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2002 8:41 pm Post subject:

Russki · Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2002 9:08 pm Post subject:

sisob · Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2002 6:10 pm Post subject:

I just re-merged fam and now it works

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