Rclone mounted directories suddenly slower? about joshuto HOT 3 CLOSED

Yeah, I was afraid of this performance regression as well.

One way ranger does it is by having the option to toggle this behaviour:
https://github.com/ranger/ranger/blob/f1f3f1765f6e97b4e1af80da8f237bf7f1ad895f/ranger/config/rc.conf#L52

I think we can expand on this solution by having 3 options:

1. No directory counting
2. Lazy directory counting
   only count when a preview has been cached/loaded
3. Full directory counting
   This will traverse directories to count files

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Added automatically_count_files option in 97ca1fb.

This currently disables file counting all together and should improve performance on network mounts, mtp, etc.

Future plan is to make it opportunistic. ie. if we already have that directory loaded into memory, then getting the count is trivial.

I will close this issue when that is completed.

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Support has been added to lazily count directory items:
The contents will only be accounted for if the directory contents has already been loaded into memory.

Some minor problems we will need to fix in the future is updating this value whenever a directory reload is executed.

commit: c7053df

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