Re: To Discuss: Application Startup Time

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 16:53, Andy Ross wrote:
> Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > Hmm. It shouldn't be doing thousands of stats. Just a readdir per
> > directory.
> 
> It's calling getdirents for every directory.  That has to read
> the inode.  Check my first post in the thread, or run strace
> yourself.

Ah, yeah. It stats each directory, but not each icon. However, it seems
that the amount of directories have gotten quite large.

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