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

[Kevin Krammer]

On Tuesday, 2012-09-18, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> 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.

Yes, pretty sure.
mount says:
/dev/sda5 on /data/share type fuseblk

FAT would be mounted as type vfat. I also see a /sbin/mount.ntfs process in 
htop

> > 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?

Yes and a Plasma CPU monitor.

> Do you use Dolphin's tree view with details?

Usually not, but switching to that didn't change anything CPU usage wise.

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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