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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: low performance of kio
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date:       2000-04-20 20:36:06
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Carsten Pfeiffer wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 02:06:48PM -0500, mosfet wrote:
> 
> Hiya,
> 
> > Hmm, we have a difference of opinion then. I think the vast majority of
> > KDE users aren't going to be on NFS and will care *much* more about
> > local file performance. Actually, I'm pretty darn confident about this -
> > most of our users are probably using ppp for their internet connection
> > ;-) Thinking about things like loading images in graphics apps, I know I
> > do. That isn't to say that non-blocking on NFS isn't important, it's
> > just that having bad read/write speed on people's local filesystems is
> > very important as well (at least to me), and having to have a separate
> > set of code isn't very optimal IMHO.
> 
> there is a
> static bool probably_slow_mounted(const char *filename)
> in kfile/kfilereader.cpp, maybe this could be used by KIO and then read
> local not-slow-mounted files in-process.
> 
That's what I planed it for. Actually it was planed to be a switch
between
old KIO and old KFilereader. But it can also be used directly within
kio.
I tested it and it worked quite well.

Greetings, Stephan

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