Bug 164309

Summary:	Dolphin very slow to use
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	Saulo Toledo <saulotoledo>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Peter Penz <peter.penz19>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	pano_90, saulotoledo, vitorenna83
Priority:	NOR
Version:	16.12.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Saulo Toledo 2008-06-17 16:48:00 UTC

Version:            (using Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources
OS:                Linux

I have:
- Intel Core 2 Duo
- 2 GB RAM DDR2
- GeForce 8400 (512 MB)

I wait 2 or 3 seconds to Dolphin show my file list in a directory with 10 or 20 files/directories.

Now I open, rename etc. using konsole, because I don't have patience with Dolphin...

Comment 1 Peter Penz 2008-06-17 17:13:02 UTC

Thanks for the report, but I'd please need more information what might be the problem in your case:
- Did you turn on Strigi/Nepomuk?
- Do you have the same problem when using the file-dialog e. g. in KWrite?
- Could you have a look which process takes so much performance (Alt+F2)?
Thanks in advance!

Comment 2 Jarl Gjessing 2008-07-12 11:15:25 UTC

On my P4  3G6 with 2Gb RAM, dolphin hangs if I "open" a directory with large files.
I.e. 1 folder with two ISO's makes dolphin "hang" for as long it has taken me to go through this bug reporting sequence, and it is still not responsive :-(
I have not, as far as I remember turned preview on, but still if I had, the preview should have been a "forked" process, so dolphin could continue working?
I can see when running top that dolphin is trying to read the files which on 4Gb files of course DOES take a long time. Especieally when the files are located on an NFS server. So the preview thingy should be deoupled from dolphin in some way.

Comment 3 Peter Penz 2008-07-13 20:29:32 UTC

Do you have a recent SVN version (means: < 5 days old)? There have been made several strigi related fixes during the last days, which resulted in a "hanging Dolphin".

Comment 4 Felix Michel 2008-08-08 00:34:10 UTC

hi,

i have the same problem and for me it seems to be strigi related. if i turn of the information panel, dolphin is as fast as usual.

felix

Comment 5 Peter Penz 2008-08-08 08:01:01 UTC

Could you please check which strigi version you have ('strigidaemon --version')? A version >= 0.5.11 is required...

Comment 6 Panagiotis Papadopoulos 2008-09-10 17:58:33 UTC

I can confirm, that if you turn of the Information-panel, dolphin seems to be faster, especially if you use the detailed informationen mode (CTRL+2).
The output from strigidaemon --version is 0.5.11

Comment 7 Saulo Toledo 2008-09-19 18:03:42 UTC

A can confirm here, Dolphin is slow, and worse with info panel.
Sometimes I lost my pacience and use XFE or nautilus to navigate into my files. I'm using Debian SID with KDE 4.1.1

My machine:
- Pentium IV 3 GHz
- 1GB RAM
- Video GeForce4 FX5500 256MB

Comment 8 Vito Renna 2008-10-02 15:12:14 UTC

I confirm this bug on debian Lenny + kde4(4.1.1).
If I close the info panel dolphin is faster.

Core 2 T2300 1.6Ghz
1GB RAM
Geforce GO 7400 256 MB (Using the last nvidia beta driver)

Comment 9 Peter Penz 2008-10-02 15:30:13 UTC

The issue is related to Strigi/Nepomuk. I'll check with the maintainers what we can do to solve this...

Comment 10 Peter Penz 2008-10-09 00:07:28 UTC

The issue has been fixed for KDE 4.2.