Re: [ROOT] TGFileDialog error

From: Fons Rademakers (Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch)
Date: Mon Sep 29 2003 - 14:26:47 MEST


What version of ROOT are you using?

-- Fons


On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 10:45:53AM +0200, Rene Brun wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> Could you tell us how many files you have in your directory.
> Just to give you some idea on performance, I made the following simple test
> with dir1 containing 1000 files and dir2 containing 10000 files.
> Then I used the Root TBrowser and the KDE browser
> 
> dir1:  TBrowser=2s  KDE=3s
> dir2:  TBrowser=15s KDE=25s
> 
> The time seems to be proportional to the number of files.
> 
> Rene Brun
> 
> "Michael T. Gericke" wrote:
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I have compiled ROOT program for analysis purposes.
> > When I try to change to a large directory with lots of
> > data in it, using the TGFileDialog, it takes a long
> > time to open the directory and I get the following
> > error message and I can't open any files:
> > 
> > Error in <RootX11ErrorHandler>: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter)
> > (XID: 48235093, XREQ: 25)
> > 
> > I do not get this message if I try to read a smaller directory, so I
> > could copy subsets of my data to a new directory but that gets pretty
> > tired after a while, because we are handling Tbyte size directories.
> > The files in the directory themselves are about 200 Mbytes each...
> > 
> > Does anyone know how to circumvent this?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Michael Gericke

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