[gdal-dev] Re: GDAL 1.5.0 is slow

[Frank Warmerdam]

Michael Workman wrote:
> Frank
> 
> Was able to fix my 64 bit problem by adding /usr/lib64 to my LD_LIBRARY_PATH. 
> Compiles and links fine now. Onward to other issues.
> 
> I am having problems with the time it takes to run GDAL apps. For example, there 
> are a number of versions of gdalinfo on my system. A few:
> 
>     ~> <FWTools-2.0>/bin_safe/gdalinfo --version
>     GDAL 1.5dev, FWTools 2.0.0, released 2007/11/12
>     ~> <gdal-1.5.0>/apps/gdalinfo --version
>     GDAL 1.5.0, released 2007/12/18
>     ~> /usr/local/bin/gdalinfo --version
>     GDAL 1.3.2.0, released 2006/05/02
> 
> When I am in a directory with a huge number of NITF files and run the gdalinfo 
> v1.5 versions on a single filename, it takes one to two minutes to return. If I 
> run gdalinfo v1.3.2, it returns immediately. If I take that same file and place 
> it by itself under my home directory, All three versions return quickly. I was 
> told this might have been addressed in the list before, but I have not found where.
> 
> Any ideas what is happening?

Mike,

This is:

   http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2158

For reasons that are not clear to me, scanning the list of files in
a directory with a lot of files is inordinately expensive in some
situations.  There is a patch that allows working around this problem
though I have yet to make a final decision on what to do about it.

Best regards,
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