Any suggestions over a good working File browser

[Alan Cox]

On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 01:22:11PM -0400, Peter A. Banks wrote:
> This is a 3 year old system on my home system with a 800 MHz AMD athlon
> chip 512Mb memory and two 40gb hard drives. All partitions are ext3. I
> have no NFS just Samba running slowness happens when I try to look at
> any large directory like /usr/share or /usr/lib. I am running Nautilus
> set up for tree view as default. Even with out the tree view Nautilus
> take a minute to build the directory on /usr/lib. I will try Rox.

That is suprisingly slow. 

For comparison a 533Mhz VIA C3 (About Celeron 400 equivalent) with 512Mb
of RAM and a laptop drive takes 26 seconds from cold (mostly reading the
disk time) and 6.5 seconds from warm

(FC2 2.6.6-1.427 kernel for i586)

Alan