Re: Benchmarking Nautilus (was Re: [Nautilus-list] performance and usability)

[George Farris <george gmsys com>]

Also try running Nautilus remotely over a slow network link.  When I run
Evolution like this it redraws the icon bar at the top many times???

It certainly slows it down.

On Fri, 2002-01-25 at 16:06, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> > They would be more helpful if you would be more specific. Timing
> > tests, the version of Nautilus you're running, and especially features
> 
> Right. Timing tests. Has anyone done benchmarks on nautilus, like
> automated opening of 10000 windows on different locations or the like ?
> 
> Obviously it is very important to know what is slowest.
> Then we know what to speed up or if that is not possible at least what
> to disable (by users option!) to get nautilus faster.
> 
> Does anyone know of such results results, I mean a real profiler run of
> nautilus ?
> 
> > you think should be removed to streamline its operation. One of the
> > difficulties the Nautilus developers have faced is the tug-of-war
> > between various ideas about what functions a "file manager" should
> > perform. Bugzilla and the lists are littered with requests for "the
> > one function it is obvious a file manager really needs". You may have
> > the idea in your mind of the perfect file manager which is quick and
> > does just the set of operations you need, but my experience in
> > observing Nautilus over the last year or two is that many people have
> > very different ideas about what set of functions that implies.
> 
> I guess, the problem is not that nautilus can do everything(tm) (since
> features can be disable via config.) but at first a fast and stable
> file+desktop manager.
> 
> Soeren.
> 
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