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: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 11:14:02 +0300 Message-ID: References: <48C9DA7A.8050900@ggmail.com> <48CB247F.8030504@ggmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1221293696 26532 80.91.229.12 (13 Sep 2008 08:14:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 08:14:56 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 13 10:15:51 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 1KeQIJ-0002DV-E4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Sep 2008 10:15:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48220 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KeQHI-000742-8d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Sep 2008 04:14:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KeQGt-00073x-RQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Sep 2008 04:14:23 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KeQGr-00073j-Fw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Sep 2008 04:14:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38146 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KeQGr-00073g-8v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Sep 2008 04:14:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout7.012.net.il ([84.95.2.19]:52757) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KeQGr-0003V5-3n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Sep 2008 04:14:21 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.70.226.149]) by i-mtaout7.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0K74007GRK8P6F40@i-mtaout7.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Sep 2008 11:14:49 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <48CB247F.8030504@ggmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (1203?) 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:57512 Archived-At: > From: AlFire > Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:25:03 -0700 > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >> From: AlFire > >> Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:56:58 -0700 > >> > >> this is a situation: I access samba based file system from Windows. It > >> is not rocket fast but neither pig slow. I noted the find-file takes > >> veeeery long (15 seconds) time to complete. Another factor is that the > >> file is quite deep in the directory structure namely: > >> > >> W:\dir1\dir2\dir3\dir4\dir5\dir6\dir7\dir8\dir9\dirA\dirB\dirC\file.c > > > > Which version of Emacs is that? > 22.2.1 > > > > > Also, did you type the above long file name literally, or did you use > > TAB-completion somewhere along the way? If the latter, please tell > > _exactly_ what you typed, character by character (C-h l should help > > you gathering this info). > > > > no tab completion involved - provided the full path to the find-file and hit . In addition drag-and-drop as well as the reading the file during the desktop-load is slow as well. Does it help to set w32-get-true-file-attributes to a nil value?