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

[Shlomi Fish]

Hello Michael,

I'm CCing the list.

On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 14:51:25 +0300
Michael Vasiliev <mycroft at infoscav.net> wrote:

> The Tuxera one. Tuxera was formed exactly for selling the optimized
> version of ntfs-3g, by the same author. I guess it's his way of
> earning a buck.

It's also a way to make sure that ntfs-3g remains less optimised, and its
users more unhappy. But I guess that's life.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

> 
> On Friday 31 August 2012 14:34:37 you wrote:
> > Hi Michael,
> > 
> > On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 11:54:11 +0300
> > 
> > Michael Vasiliev <mycroft at infoscav.net> wrote:
> > > The ntfs-3g driver is not exactly the optimal thing for NTFS, it
> > > consumes a lot of CPU, the commercial version of this driver lifts
> > > that limitation.
> > 
> > Well, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS#Linux lists two commercial
> > drivers:
> > 
> > 1. Tuxera NTFS: High-performance read/write commercial kernel
> > driver, mainly targeted for embedded devices from Tuxera, which
> > also develops the open source NTFS-3G driver.
> > 
> > 2. NTFS for Linux: A commercial driver with full read/write support
> > is available as free and non-free download(s) for Desktop and
> > Embedded Linux systems from Paragon Software Group.
> > 
> > Which one do you mean? Not that I can really use anyone, but it is
> > worrying that Tuxera maintains both NTFS-3G and a commercial
> > version.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > 	Shlomi Fish
> > 
> > > On Thursday 30 August 2012 21:43:21 Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > > 
> > > > ( I'm writing this message from my GMail.com account due to
> > > > email problems from shlomif at shlomifish.org with respect to the
> > > > Linux-IL mailing list. Please reply to the list so I'll get
> > > > your messages in all of my accounts.)
> > > > 
> > > > I have a laptop with the following specifications:
> > > > 
> > > > «
> > > > 
> > > > I also have an Acer Aspire 5738DZG laptop with the following
> > > > specs: Intel Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU T4300 @ 2.10GHz. (x86-64).
> > > >     ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4570 (r700)
> > > >     15.6״ 3D HD LCD Screen.
> > > >     3 GB Memory
> > > >     320 GB Hard Disk Drive.
> > > >     “DVD Super Multi DL drive”
> > > >     Acer Nplify™ 802.11b/g/n.
> > > > 
> > > > »
> > > > 
> > > > 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
> > > > 
> > > > Now, if I view this directory using a tab of KDE-4.8.x's
> > > > Konqueror in file manager mode (in order to select and drag and
> > > > drop files to my media player), I see
> > > > ntfs-3g constantly consuming roughly 18% of my CPU, which I
> > > > suspect causes the laptop to overheat.
> > > > 
> > > > I checked and ntfs-3g also consumes CPU if I run «ls -l
> > > > /media/win_d/Music/mp3/» on the command line, so
> > > > I guess that Konqueror constantly rescans that directory for
> > > > detecting changes.
> > > > 
> > > > Can anyone tell me how I can prevent Konqueror from consuming a
> > > > lot of CPU this way?
> > > > 
> > > > Regards,
> > > > 
> > > > -- Shlomi Fish
> > > 
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