(very) strange fix for slow change directory performance some people experience (could help find a fix?)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Nautilus |
New
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Low
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nautilus (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Low
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs |
Bug Description
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/
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/
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? :)
Changed in nautilus: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in nautilus: | |
importance: | Unknown → Low |
thank you for your bug report, could you describe easy steps to trigger the issue? do you get the bug on a stock installation? the description suggest something that's rather a speed perception issue and it might be tricky to figure if there is actually a bug there, could you report the bug on bugzilla.gnome.org, upstream might have a better idea about the issue