Re: Large directory listings

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 16:39 -0500, Ken Anderson wrote:
> We're experimenting with Dia as a tool for making maps of client 
> properties (we're a tree service).  We have thousands of hand-drawn BMP 
> or JPG files, and they're named by property number, typically something 
> like P24929mm.jpg.
>
> We can open the map with Dia and edit it ... but when scrolling through 
> our lengthy list of existing files, Dia sometimes seems to freeze up.  
> Could it be that our list of files (think about 12K) is too large?  Is 
> the freeze-up likely due to a problem within Dia or is it more likely a 
> memory issue with our machines?  Or a Microsoft issue (we run Win XP).
>
> Hope someone can shed light on this issue!

I'm not seeing anything like that under Linux with a directory of 12K
empty files, but opening the directory browser takes about 8 seconds on
my (somewhat dinky) machine.  Do other GTK-based programs do the same
for you (such as Gimp)?  Do non-GTK-based programs?

-Lars