changeset 43933:3147736a801d

Document problems with `df' slowing down Dired.

--- a/etc/PROBLEMS	Fri Mar 15 14:06:01 2002 +0000
+++ b/etc/PROBLEMS	Fri Mar 15 15:23:15 2002 +0000
@@ -494,6 +494,10 @@
 * Crashes when displaying GIF images in Emacs built with version
 libungif-4.1.0 are resolved by using version libungif-4.1.0b1.
 
+Beginning with version 21.3, Emacs refuses to link against libungif
+whose version is 4.1.0 or older (the `configure' script behaves as if
+libungif were not available at all).
+
 * Font Lock displays portions of the buffer in incorrect faces.
 
 By far the most frequent cause of this is a parenthesis `(' or a brace
@@ -553,6 +557,23 @@
 keyboard interrupt event sent by Emacs to Bash.  (Older Cygwin ports
 of Bash, up to b20.1, did receive SIGINT from Emacs.)
 
+* Dired is very slow.
+
+This could happen if invocation of the `df' program takes a long
+time.  Possible reasons for this include:
+
+  - ClearCase mounted filesystems (VOBs) that sometimes make `df'
+    response time extremely slow (dozens of seconds);
+
+  - slow automounters on some old versions of Unix;
+
+  - slow operation of some versions of `df'.
+
+To work around the problem, you could either (a) set the variable
+`directory-free-space-program' to nil, and thus prevent Emacs from
+invoking `df'; (b) use `df' from the GNU Fileutils package; or
+(c) use CVS, which is Free Software, instead of ClearCase.
+
 * Accessing remote files with ange-ftp hangs the MS-Windows version of Emacs.
 
 If the FTP client is the Cygwin port of GNU `ftp', this appears to be