Comment 6 for bug 78710

I'm also encountering this problem; it takes eog almost two minutes to open a single image in a directory that contains 18739 images. All of the images are small: about 6KB each. I have eog's "Image Collection" feature turned off. I repeated mihai007's test:

myusername@myhostname:~/Desktop/oneimage$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 7.10 \n \l
myusername@myhostname:~/Desktop/oneimage$ ls | wc -l
1
myusername@myhostname:~/Desktop/oneimage$ time eog 999536_sk_md.jpg

real 0m10.144s
user 0m0.204s
sys 0m0.024s
myusername@myhostname:~/Desktop/oneimage$ cd ../thumbs/
myusername@myhostname:~/Desktop/thumbs$ ls | wc -l
18739
myusername@myhostname:~/Desktop/thumbs$ time eog 999536_sk_md.jpg

real 1m54.746s
user 1m43.062s
sys 0m1.464s