Re: [Nautilus-list] Nautilus2 performance

[John Fleck <jfleck inkstain net>]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 04:51:32AM -0800, Seth Nickell wrote:
> I'm pleased to report that Nautilus 2 is performing very quickly
> relative to Nautilus 1!
> 
> On my system (PII 450 192 Megs RAM):
> 
> Startup time (window open and loaded, desktop loaded and drawn)
>     nautilus1: 16 seconds
>     nautilus2: 9 seconds
> 
> New window (empty folder)
>     nautilus1: 9 seconds
>     nautilus2: 4 seconds
> 
> Time before first signs of new window appear:
>     nautilus1: 5 seconds
>     nautilus2: 1-2 seconds
> 
> New window (/var/www about 50 files of various types, about 15 are
> pre-thumbnailed images)
>     nautilus1: 10 seconds
>     nautilus2: 5 seconds
> 
> Change location (/var/www)
>     nautilus1: 2 seconds
>     nautilus2: 2 seconds
> 
> This is with the sidebar on, and "News", "Notes", and "History" sidebars
> turned on. All these were done with the cache cold: a fair amount of
> random GNOME use not touching Nautilus to see if under reasonable load
> some stuff might get swapped out.
> 
> These are really terrific results :-)
> 

This is great news!

John