Re: Holy Shit Does Linux SUCK!!!

From: Jim (james_at_the-computer-shop.co.uk)
Date: 06/22/05 

Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 20:01:50 GMT

Jim wrote:
> Tim Smith wrote:
>
>> In article <1119385624.482094.111210@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>, Rommy
>> Watson wrote:
>>
>>> Opening konqueror and navigating to an mp3 directory of 90,000 mp3's
>>> hung
>>> the entire system, not just the first time, but EVERY SINGLE TIME I went
>>> to that directory. Gee, Windows XP opens it in less than a second.
>>
>>
>>
>> Windows XP does not handle directories with 90000 files anywhere near
>> that
>> fast. You are lying about this, and, it is likely, about everything
>> in your
>> post.
>>
> Just tested this on my AMD XP2400+ with 512MB DDR333 and ATA133 FAT32,
> folder off root with exactly 90,000 mp3 files of nonzero size. Three
> minutes, eighteen seconds in icon view. Same folder with Knoppix 3.8
> CD-booted, a smidge (less than ten seconds) longer, also in icon view.
> Given the conclusion in another thread that some mechanism in the KDE
> desktop or underlying code caches the entire directory listing prior to
> displaying (so it scrolls large listings a lot smoother), I'm neither
> surprised nor bothered by this slight increase in time-to-display.
>
Addendum: the listing timing on Windows was done on XPSP1 

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