From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: slow find-file for network file systems and very deep directories Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:01:54 +0300 Message-ID: References: <48C9DA7A.8050900@ggmail.com> <48CB247F.8030504@ggmail.com> <48CF2ECE.1050602@ggmail.com> <48D2FE2E.8010308@ggmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1221815005 16266 80.91.229.12 (19 Sep 2008 09:03:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:03:25 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 19 11:04:21 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KgbtZ-0003UW-U3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:03:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57723 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KgbsY-0001Tq-NZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:02:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KgbsD-0001TW-CO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:01:57 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KgbsB-0001T8-MK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:01:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51594 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KgbsB-0001T5-I9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:01:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout3.012.net.il ([84.95.2.7]:9783) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KgbsB-0004tt-0n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:01:55 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.116.246]) by i_mtaout3.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0K7F00I1XQGR5YS0@i_mtaout3.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:02:51 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <48D2FE2E.8010308@ggmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:57787 Archived-At: > From: AlFire > Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:19:42 -0700 > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > > > Can you compare the time it takes to visit the file when you type "C-x > > C-f" with what happens when you type this instead: > > > > M-: (find-file "W:\dir1\dir2\dir3\dir4\dir5\dir6\dir7\dir8\dir9\dirA\dirB\dirC\file.c") RET > > > still the same > > > > Also, do you happen to know if this was significantly faster in > > previous Emacs versions? > > this: > GNU Emacs 21.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2004-03-10 on NYAUMO > > works much faster then this: > GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2008-03-26 on RELEASE > > > I chacked the number is file ops (using filemon again) and the number is > down to 130 from 800something. Thanks. Please move this discussion to emacs-devel@gnu.org, and please post there, along with the description of the problem, the traces of file ops in Emacs 21.3 and in 22.2. If you can upgrade to Emacs 22.3, which was just released, please try this in there as well.