Ticket #43 (closed defect: fixed)
savannah: [ENHANCEMENT] MC is slow when working with lots of files
| Reported by: | lzap | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | |
| Component: | mc-core | Version: | master |
| Keywords: | Cc: | egmont@… | |
| Blocked By: | Blocking: | ||
| Branch state: | no branch | Votes for changeset: |
Description (last modified by ossi) (diff)
Original: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?16256
| Submitted by: | Lukas Zapletal <lzap> | Submitted on: | Mon 03 Apr 2006 07:43:30 PM UTC |
| Category: | Core | Severity: | 3 - Normal |
| Status: | None | Privacy: | Public |
| Assigned to: | None | Open/Closed: | Open |
| Release: | All versions | Operating System: | GNU/Linux |
Original submission:
When you copy/remove lots of files, the midnight gets too slow because of thousands of screen redraws (per a second). Terminals are slow and disc is waiting. It would be nice to limit the redraw of the copy/remove window do an user defined time (e.g. 200-500 ms). This could be easy to implement (and you dont need threads or something like that - just one "if" and time measurement). Check this out - touch 100000 files and try to delete with midnight and after that with the "rm" command. Feel the difference?
Change History
comment:2 Changed 15 years ago by angel_il
- Status changed from new to closed
- Resolution set to wontfix
- severity set to no branch
hmm... works quickly
comment:4 Changed 13 years ago by sorin
- Branch state set to no branch
Why wontfix? Curently removing lots of files in mc takes minutes and with "rm -rf" only 1-2 seconds.
comment:5 Changed 13 years ago by slavazanko
If you have suggestions and patches - feel free to reopen this ticket.
comment:6 Changed 13 years ago by ossi
mc has a "verbose operation" option which enables progress output in the first place.
but the idea to implement event compression (repaint skipping) is entirely reasonable - nobody can follow more than five filenames per second anyway. so just omit progress updates if less then 200ms passed from the previous update.
comment:8 Changed 11 years ago by ossi
- Description modified (diff)
- Reporter changed from slavazanko to lzap
comment:9 Changed 11 years ago by andrew_b
- Status changed from closed to reopened
- Version set to master
- Resolution wontfix deleted
- Milestone changed from future releases to Future Releases
comment:10 Changed 11 years ago by andrew_b
Ticket #3028 has been marked as a duplicate of this ticket.
comment:11 Changed 11 years ago by andrew_b
Ticket #3218 has been marked as a duplicate of this ticket.
comment:12 Changed 11 years ago by DvanDellen
Disable verbose in the options doesn't make that much difference, actually takes more time to copy +-7GB
Any tips? Is this fixed in a newer version?(current 4.8.3)
comment:13 Changed 10 years ago by egmont
Could this be related to #3247 (incl. its comment 3)? I'm afraid even in non-verbose mode mc just does way too many screen updates (prints every filename in the dialog), probably rate limiting them would noticeably speed up the actual operation.
