Browse/Open File Dialogue Slow

jamiekitson · Post by **jamiekitson** » Tue Jan 05, 2010 3:26 pm

Hi,

recently wine applications seem to be very slow when the Open File Dialogue is listing a directory containing lots of files. For example a directory with 450 files in just took 15 seconds to open. Or is that normal?

Version 1.1.35

Cheers, Jamie

vitamin · Post by **vitamin** » Tue Jan 05, 2010 9:20 pm

jamiekitson wrote:For example a directory with 450 files in just took 15 seconds to open. Or is that normal?

Yeah, it's "normal". Wine has huge overhead when reading directories with lots of files. Also some optimization(s) won't hurt either.

Birger · Post by **Birger** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 12:50 pm

I have used Wine for a year running Dreamweaver and PhotoShop. No, problems until just before Christmas. Then Wine became unusable because opening/ browsing directories is very slow. Opening a file after the 30 seconds wait is fast and normal. The CPUs are running at almost 100% when "hanging", and the winedevice.exe process has status pipe_wait.

I remember that after upgrading to 1.1.35 it asked to download some drivers. Wine has never done this before. I regret that I did not note details on this.

Have tried to uninstall and reinstall several times, but the problem is still there. Could anybody help?

Birger · Post by **Birger** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 1:08 pm

The last post should start with: "I have used Wine for a year running Dreamweaver and PhotoShop. No problems until just before Christmas."

John Drescher · Post by **John Drescher** » Wed Jan 06, 2010 1:13 pm

I remember that after upgrading to 1.1.35 it asked to download some drivers. Wine has never done this before. I regret that I did not note details on this.

This is a distribution specific issue and not really related to wine.

John

Birger · Post by **Birger** » Thu Jan 07, 2010 3:03 pm

Wine works fine now. Got 1.0.1 from the standard Ubunty repository. I had specified the wine.budgetdedicated.com repository which gave the 1.1.35 revision. This is not recommended by Ubuntu, I read today. Thanks for your comment. And, thanks for the Wine program.

DaVince · Post by **DaVince** » Thu Jan 07, 2010 3:44 pm

Birger wrote:Wine works fine now. Got 1.0.1 from the standard Ubunty repository. I had specified the wine.budgetdedicated.com repository which gave the 1.1.35 revision. This is not recommended by Ubuntu, I read today. Thanks for your comment. And, thanks for the Wine program.

The only disrecommendation there is that it doesn't fall under Ubuntu support but instead under forum support over here. 1.1.35 generally runs a LOT more than the over-a-year-old 1.0.1. If you encountered software that does work in the old version but not the latest you have found a regression that will have to be reported and fixed in Wine.

jamiekitson · Post by **jamiekitson** » Tue Mar 23, 2010 5:48 pm

Just done an upgraded and the slow open dialogue issue seems to be fixed. GOod work guys.