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, 12 Sep 2008 09:25:10 +0300 Message-ID: References: <48C9DA7A.8050900@ggmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1221200739 22864 80.91.229.12 (12 Sep 2008 06:25:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 06:25:39 +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 12 08:26:34 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 1Ke270-0007Sk-JM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:26:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43523 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ke260-0002nE-4I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 02:25:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ke25e-0002kA-Du for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 02:25:10 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ke25d-0002iq-BT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 02:25:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54339 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ke25d-0002ih-87 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 02:25:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout4.012.net.il ([84.95.2.10]:49028) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ke25c-00008V-PO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 02:25:09 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.70.226.149]) by i_mtaout4.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0K7200ANQKJ9IE51@i_mtaout4.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:25:57 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <48C9DA7A.8050900@ggmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-kernel: 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:57468 Archived-At: > 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? 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).