Re: MC problem in RH8.0 (Follow-on)

[Jakub Jelinek <jakub redhat com>]

On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 11:16:11AM -0700, Maurer, David C wrote:
> I'm following on to an earlier message sent about the slowdown of MC in
> RedHat 8.0.  I have seen this issue as well when changing directories that
> are nested deep in the tree.  The version that comes with RedHat 8.0 is
> 4.55.  But I have also compiled 4.60-pre1 under RH 8.0 with the same
> results.  I've also installed the 4.55 version shipped with RedHat 7.3 with
> the same results.
>
> The slowdown a is noticibly dramatic change from RH 7.3 to RH 8.0.  It feels
> like it's griding to a halt when changing directories (even ones with no
> files in it), but not the type of delay associated with sorting a directory
> with 1000s of files in it.
>
> This change directory slowdown occurs both when tabbing from one window to
> the other, but changing directories from within the same window, and
> changing directories from the command line with the cd / command.  To me
> this points to a problem with a RH 8.0 library somewhere mc is linking to.
> But this is purely speculation.

Aren't you using en_US locale on RH 7.3 and en_US.UTF-8 locale on RH 8.0?
regex is of course slower if multi-byte locales.

        Jakub