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kovidgoyal · 12-30-2011, 03:34 AM

@toddos: intersting, thanks for the info. I'm somewhat surprised even at the stat calls, as IIRC they should not be happening en masse on startup, but that is a lot more believable. I think they only happen if you have a custom column defined. That causes get_metadata to be called which in turn reads the sizes and last modified times for the ebook files. That info is cached, so future calls will not actually hit the filesystem.

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kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,464 Karma: 27757440 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	@toddos: intersting, thanks for the info. I'm somewhat surprised even at the stat calls, as IIRC they should not be happening en masse on startup, but that is a lot more believable. I think they only happen if you have a custom column defined. That causes get_metadata to be called which in turn reads the sizes and last modified times for the ebook files. That info is cached, so future calls will not actually hit the filesystem. Last edited by kovidgoyal; 12-30-2011 at 03:38 AM.