Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: gtk+2.0 (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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Title:
gtk2 file chooser slow
Status in “gtk+2.0” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
2. What did you attempt to do, or what did you notice was wrong?
I'm attempting to upload a large numbers of files in a browser (I tried both
chrome and firefox). I tried uploading 600+ files to Google drive and it hangs
on the upload screen for 2-5 minutes before starting the upload. It appears
that the bottleneck is getting the list of files from the file chooser to the
browser to start processing, not in the actual upload process it self.
3. What was the expected result, or the expected state?
It should exit the upload screen quickly and start the upload
I'm running into this issue on a Precise desktop. It's not exhibiting
the behavior on Lucid desktops.
The project that I'm working on requires uploading hundreds of files
at once and has worked fine on Lucid. Now that I've switched to
Precise I am unable to work or iterate quickly, incurring 5-10 minute
penalties after every code change I make. It's a major work stopping
issue for me.
DISTRIB_CODENAME=precise
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS"
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=12.04
stracing reveals:
open("/usr/local/google/home/dmillett/.local/share/recently-used.xbel.OB5WNW",
O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0666) = 84
fcntl(84, F_GETFL) = 0x8002 (flags O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE)
fstat(84, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0640, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) =
0x7f43cd6ae000
lseek(84, 0, SEEK_CUR) = 0
write(84, "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UT"..., 8114176) = 8114176
write(84, "cation name=\"Google Chrome\" exec"..., 1234) = 1234
fstatfs(84, {f_type="EXT2_SUPER_MAGIC", f_bsize=4096, f_blocks=105852516,
f_bfree=49581834, f_bavail=44283402, f_files=26492928, f_ffree=24427833,
f_fsid={-1302100876, 32001381}, f_namelen=255, f_frsize=4096}) = 0
lstat("/usr/local/google/home/dmillett/.local/share/recently-used.xbel",
{st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=8115410, ...}) = 0
fsync(84) = 0
--- SIGPROF (Profiling timer expired) @ 0 (0) ---
close(84) = 0
munmap(0x7f43cd6ae000, 4096) = 0
rename("/usr/local/google/home/dmillett/.local/share/recently-used.xbel.OB5WNW",
"/usr/local/google/home/dmillett/.local/share/recently-used.xbel") = 0
madvise(0x7f43d99eb000, 8388608, MADV_DONTNEED) = 0
chmod("/usr/local/google/home/dmillett/.local/share/recently-used.xbel",
0600) = 0
--- SIGPROF (Profiling timer expired) @ 0 (0) ---
There are thousands of these files (one for every file the user tried
to upload...) and it makes her experience very bad. She ended up
following some instructions at http://cviorel.easyblog.ro/2012/03/07
/disable-recent-documents-in-gtk2gtk3/ to disable 'recent files.'
However it might be nice if this worked better for this use case. The
user claims she routinely uploads 14000+ files to google drive, using
her web browser.
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