Re: FTP performance (was Re: Performance)

[Manuel Clos <llanero eresmas net>]

Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) wrote:
> > > Isn't nautilus gathering size information about the files it needs to 
> > > copy before starting the real copy? Maybe this is what is causing the 
> > > net activity before the copy start.
> >
> > Yeah, it does.
>
>
> The burning question is: can this be helped or avoided?  If so, I think Nautilus
> should by default *not* gather the information when a slow FTP link is detected
> (e.g. when the time between login: and password: exceeds 0.5 msec, or perhaps
> when the time between three or four short FTP transactions (think ls or dir)
> exceeds a predefined, short (5 second) time).

This is not a big amount of traffic and is needed so that nautilus can 
show you a progress bar. I love progess bars :)

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Manuel Clos
llanero eresmas net
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