Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] Search is painfully slow

[Jud Craft <craftjml gmail com>]

With about 3100 songs, I have no such hang-up.  Searching could be a
little faster, but it doesn't lock the program up at all.  That sounds
very peculiar.

Are you using a particular filesystem?  Do you have your songs on a
network drive or external partition?

2009/3/17 Sven Arvidsson <sa whiz se>:
> On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 12:22 +0100, Joakim Eriksson wrote:
>> An user example: I have about four and a half thousand sound files in
>> my library on a recently modern laptop (one year old, 2 gigabyte of
>> RAM etcetera). When I begin to type a search string, already at the
>> first character, Rythmbox starts to search for the specific character
>> and can lock the entire program for a good 10-20 seconds or so. When
>> the search is done, I can type in the rest of the characters in the
>> search string. The procedure repeats itself for the rest of the
>> characters, but with decreasing search time. The first character is
>> the worst.
>
> Interesting, I have almost twice as many songs in my library, and no
> such problem using search.
>
> There is however a bug report filed, matching your problem, but it only
> mentions a "large" amount of songs.
>
> See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=536546
>
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> Cheers,
> Sven Arvidsson
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