Slow Network

[AnthonyCian]

Hi,

Using the current ver of TotCom under XP on a 2003 Server at work.

Server "A" is at my location, and server B is the server 10miles away. I assigned R as the drive for the server on B. The connection speed is slow between the 2 locations and this is a known issue. When I say slow, I mean sloooowww, lucky to get 56k. Here is the situation:

When I go to the R drive, the root of R will have 70 folders and a few files. Using Windows Explorer it will display all 70 folders and files pretty quick. But when I am using Tot Com, it takes .5 sec to display each folder one at a time. That means it can take around 30sec before it completes it view of the root of the R drive.

My question is, why is Tot Com taking so long compared to Windows Explorer? And is there a setting in Tot Com that can display the folders more quickly?

Thanks,

AC

[Hacker]

Hello AnthonyCian,
Try disabling icons.

HTH
Roman

[AnthonyCian]

Thanks, I will give this a try.

AC

[AnthonyCian]

I turned off the icons and still the same...Very Sloooow

AC

[ghisler(Author)]

Do you use custom colors by file type? If yes, try to disable them temporarily in Configuration - Options - Colors.

[bop sprengers]

In Configuration there is this option : 'Display / Tree / Always load complete directory tree'. Selecting this makes TC slooooow...

[AnthonyCian]

Hi,

Yes, I do use custom colors, I will disable that and see what happens.

As for the "Always load complete dir tree". I am at home so I will have to see what the setting is, but I think it is not checked.

Will keep you posted on the outcome.

Thanks,

Anthony

[AnthonyCian]

Great News! It was the custom colors all this time. When I disabled it, the listing speed of the folders and files are just like WinExp.

By the way, the Always load complete dir tree was un-checked.

Thanks!!!

AC

[solid]

I've just tried network browsing with colors by filetype turned off. B&W but lightning fast.
I now request option for automatically disabling colors by filetype when on network or a cm_ to toggle it.

[petermad]

I now request option for automatically disabling colors by filetype when on network

If you access your network with UNC paths you can prevent your colors by filetype from being shown by adding plugin filtering to the definition of your color filter.

Plugin configuration:

Code: Select all

Plugin: tc
Property: path
OP: !contains
Value: \\

In wincmd.ini this code would be added to for example the filter >Myfilter:
Myfilter_Plugin=tc.path !contains \\\\

[solid]

I haven't tried out your suggeston yet, i don't have time right now and have many color filters to change.

But as I see it, this tip will not disable coloring filetypes, but will only not apply coloring files on the unc paths. It will check them, that makes TC slower and at the end it will not apply the filter. To gain the performance, we need not to check the files on network.

As I said, didn't tried it yet, just thought over it, so maybe i'm wrong

[petermad]

but will only not apply coloring files on the unc paths. It will check them,

You might be right - I haven't tried it, so that remains to be seen. If TC applies the plugin filter first it might skip the whole drive.

Let us know what you experience if you try it.

[ghisler(Author)]

Try putting the filter
Myfilter_Plugin=tc.path contains \\\\

as the first color filter, and set the color to black. This way TC will stop going through all the other filters on network paths, because the first filter is already a match.

You probably have defined filters which need access to more details than shown in normal file lists, e.g. special attributes or even file contents. These will take much longer (especially over a network) than filters which access just the file name, size, time or attribute fields, or even use external plugins.

[solid]

I did that, and it works great.
Thank you very much. I've tried myriad things to speed up the network browsing and finally gave up, but this trick solves the problem.

I have about a dozen filters. They are not using plugins at all, just names, attributes and dates.