Size of directories is not calculated

[NightMachinery]

[wyhaya]

I don't think this function should be added, this requires recursive directory to get file size and then merge.

it will be very slow.

[svenstaro]

Eh let's reopen it. It could be fast enough and it could also be cached. It should be opt-in though for sure so that the host can't be DOSed by default.

[wyhaya]

@svenstaro If you encounter a directory like node_modules, there may be 10,000-100,000... files, is there any good way?

[svenstaro]

Yeah, how about setting a useful timeout per directory?

[wyhaya]

I think timeout is not good. If it cannot be calculated quickly, it will time out every time, which means that the server can never calculate the size of some folders. The timeout should be set on some unstable functions, such as network packets.

[NightMachinery]

The timeout can be cached as “-1”. Or “NA.” I personally don’t have that many files.

[ssokolow]

How about how KDE's Dolphin file manager does it, where, instead of file sizes, it's a count of files/directories inside each folder?

Then the timeout could display something like "More than ____ items".

[zamu-flowerpot]

I came here to mention KDE's file count and glad it was already been mentioned.