[kde-linux] How to Get the Combination of NTFS-3g and Konqueror (as a file manager) to consume less CPU

[Shlomi Fish]

On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:59:30 +0200
Kevin Krammer <krammer at kde.org> wrote:

> On Monday, 2012-09-03, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> 
> > Now, it dual boots between Windows 7 x86-64 (which I hardly use) and
> > Mageia Linux 2 x86-64. Since I have a lot of space in my Windows 7
> > partition, I decided to use it to store many of my music files, so
> > they get stored at /media/win_d/Music/mp3 , which has this as its
> > /etc/fstab
> > entry:
> > 
> > UUID=24A43690A4366488 /media/win_d ntfs-3g defaults,umask=022 0 0
> 
> I have my Windows partition mounted like this:
> /dev/sda5       /data/share     auto    
> rw,user,noexec,noatime,umask=002,gid=users,utf8         0       0

I guess you are sure this is an NTFS partition and not FAT.

> 
> I am using Dolphin as file manager but my guess is that this doesn't
> make much difference (I think Konqueror is using the same file
> manager library when being used in file manager mode).
> 
> There is no CPU usage difference between viewing a directory on that
> mount point or not.

Are you using htop to monitor the CPU of the running processes?
Do you use Dolphin's tree view with details?

> 
> System is Debian, kernel is 3.3.0, ntfs-3g is 1:2012.1.15AR.6-1, Qt
> is 4.8.4, KDE is 4.8.4, Dolphin is 2.0
> 

OK, my configuration is Mageia Linux 2 with all recent updates.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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