Re: Holy *** Does Linux SUCK!!!

From: B Gruff (bbgruff_at_yahoo.co.uk)
Date: 06/23/05 

Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 23:26:42 +0100

On Wednesday 22 June 2005 21:01 Jim wrote:

> 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

Thank you for taking the trouble, Jim.
Does that mean that we can say that the OP was (in Parliamentary
language) ...er.... mistaken? - as you originally ...er....
suggested?:-)

Bill