RE: slow find-file for network file systems and very deep directories

[Drew Adams]

> this is a situation: I access samba based file system from Windows. It
> is not rocket fast but neither pig slow. I noted the find-file takes
> veeeery long (15 seconds) time to complete. Another factor is that the
> file is quite deep in the directory structure namely:
> 
> W:\dir1\dir2\dir3\dir4\dir5\dir6\dir7\dir8\dir9\dirA\dirB\dirC\file.c
> 
> Other editors did not expose the behavior. Was not sure what is the
> reason I just run the filemon to find out what emacs is doing exactly.
> And here you go - there is namely 889 file system operation needed to
> complete find-file, partially due to recursive walking thru the
> directory structure. The log is attached at the end.

Try `M-x report-emacs-bug', after reading node Bugs of
the Emacs manual (`C-h i').