Nautilus is generally slow

[Mohamed Amine Ilidrissi]

Binary package hint: nautilus

When opening *any* folder on Nautilus, the window shows up, but the contents of the folder take a while to load. The only exception is when it opens very tiny folders (e.g folders with only one file).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: nautilus 1:2.30.1-1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-9.14-generic 2.6.35-rc5
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-9-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jul 20 12:30:13 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta i386 (20100318)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:
1. Is this reproducible?
2. If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug? Be as detailed as possible.
This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

do you have the issue without appmenu-gtk installed or in use?

[Mohamed Amine Ilidrissi (ilidrissi.amine)]

1. Is this reproducible?
Yes, it is.

2. If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug? Be as detailed as possible.
Like I said, this occurs with every folder I open, with the exception of *very* tiny folders (like folders with one file only).

If this can help: I tested both the nvidia and nouveau drivers without noticeable changes. Therefore, it is not related to X.

[Mohamed Amine Ilidrissi (ilidrissi.amine)]

Uninstalling appmenu-gtk didn't help.
(btw, I'm not using unity - just wanted to test it and forgot to remove it)

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 3:59 PM, Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> wrote:

> do you have the issue without appmenu-gtk installed or in use?
>
> --
> Nautilus is generally slow
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/607708
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

[Mohamed Amine Ilidrissi (ilidrissi.amine)]

Uninstalling appmenu-gtk didn't help.
(btw I'm not using Unity - I just wanted to test it on my laptop, and forgot to remove it)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

did you restart your session?

[Mohamed Amine Ilidrissi (ilidrissi.amine)]

If you mean log out and back in, then yes - it doesn't change anything. (Same with restarting the computer)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for nautilus (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[dreamon (dreamon)]

I reopened the bug report because this is still an issue and has not changed over the last three Ubuntu releases (Karmic to Maverick). I am currently running Ubuntu Maverick on a Intel i5 quad core CPU and Nautilus is still extremely slow to open. The first time Nautilus opens a folder it takes about 2-3 seconds until the window finally shows up. Also, as Mohamed pointed out above, folders that contain a large number of files are very slow to load, and take at least 5 seconds, even on this machine.

I have tested this on a wide variety of systems, from high end desktop PCs (>= quad core) to laptops (>= dual core 1.6 mhz) to netbooks (single core atom cpus), in various Linux distributions (Ubuntu 9.10 to 10.10, Fedora 12 and SUSE 11.2) and in 32 as well as 64 bit architectures, and I can confirm that this is not hardware related as Nautlius is very slow in all these configurations. Nautilus is typically slower by a ratio of 2:1 to 3:1 when compared to Windows Explorer (Windows 7) on dual boot systems. This is very much an issue considering that there are many fine Linux file managers out there that outperform Nautilus by far.

Please let me know if I can provide any more information.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The bug is old and Ubuntu changed quite a lot since, there has also been no activity here nor similar reports. Closing since we believe the issue as described is deprecated but feel free to file a new report if you still have problems in recent Ubuntu versions.