Hi guys, I did a search and read through a bunch of directory listing topics and none of them were quite the problem I am experiencing.

 

So what's happening is this, I spin up all the drives by click the Spin Up button on the Unraid Main browser window and then go about managing all my files on my server. When I click on a directory, it can take anywhere up to a minute for the directory listing to appear. When explorer is waiting (in Windows 7) it has the green progress indicator moving across the directory location bar.

 

I don't think this used to happen but it's been happening for a while now and I have only just gotten round to being fed up with it and posting here.

 

I've included my system log since the beginning of the month, if more data is required, happy to provide it.

 

If it's not a fault, is there some way that I can speed it all up?

 

Thanks in advance

syslog_16092012.txt

On unRAID are you running cache_dirs ? If not, you should be.

 

Also, its how you have your Windows 7 explorer setup. The green bar typically means it is scanning media files for thumbnails and meta-data.

 

 

Ok, no, I am not running cache dirs (can you point me to the instructions for setting that up) and also I don't have the display in explorer as being thumbnails, I just have it as details listing.

 

Or am I completely off track and need to change another setting?

Ok, no, I am not running cache dirs (can you point me to the instructions for setting that up) and also I don't have the display in explorer as being thumbnails, I just have it as details listing.

 

Or am I completely off track and need to change another setting?

Details view may cause alot of file reading as well as it searches the Meta data of each file for things like length, bit rate, etc of media files.

 

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If you search for cache_dirs on the forum you should find it, alternatively install simplefeatures, it has it included.

 

All your directory info will be cached and read from memory, not even a need to spin up drives as long as you are viewing directories. How big are your file directories ?  How many files in a dir that causes this issue ?

I'll try that, it's every single directory. Some of them are largish but nothing that would have created a problem, I would have thought. I'll let you know how it goes.

I was having major slow loading problems. It was taking 20 minutes or longer to get back a directory listing from my UNRAID server when using Windows Explorer.

 

On another forum someone suggested xplorer²http://zabkat.com/. I've downloaded the trial version and I'm using it. If it stays stable and fast, I'm 'onna buy it.

 

I replaced native Windows explorer with this xplorer².

 

Directory listings are very fast now. So far so good. Awesome. This problem is currently solved for me.

 

Windows 7 64-bit, Dell XPS 630i, 8GB RAM, Intel Quad Q6600 2.4GHz.