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    I wanted to give you an additional piece of information: I just had
    the same issue again and could test what file is accessed:<br>
    The unresponsivness (grey window) occurs while digikam is reading
    (sic!) from thumbnails-digikam.db.<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 22/07/16 22:03, Gilles Caulier
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          <div class="gmail_quote">2016-07-22 21:19 GMT+02:00 Simon Frei
            <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                href="mailto:freisim93@gmail.com" target="_blank">freisim93@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br>
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              <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Thanks for the
                information.<br>
                We discussed the issue of database location earlier
                already. In the meantime I locate the database in ram,
                so access is fast (digikam as a whole is a lot faster
                now). My issue is not that digikam was slow, it is that
                it became completely. unresponsive for no apparent
                reason (no performance limit).<br>
                For clarification (I have no knowledge of database
                programming): Internal mysql uses the same "system" as
                sqlite and the recent patches discussed were only
                concerning external mysql?<br>
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            <div>yes there are. sqlite still unchanged.</div>
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            <div>Mysql database is more designed to work with huge data,
              not sqlite. This is why this kind of DB exists.</div>
            <div>Don't forget the low level interface from Qt which is
              different slightly different than sqlite.</div>
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            <div>Gilles Caulier</div>
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              <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Trying mysql is on
                my list, but only after I reorganised my collection. If
                sqlite really proves to be unusable with lots of data, I
                may switch earlier.
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                    <div>On 22/07/16 19:38, Gilles Caulier wrote:<br>
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                      <div dir="ltr">The time latency from gui are done
                        certainly by sqlite lock because a lots lots
                        data need to be managed in database.
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                        <div>Did you store the DB file in a fast device
                          as a SSD. This improve also the performance
                          until a limit of course.</div>
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                        <div>In all case, as you use git/master code,
                          Mysql must give better results. We will
                          interested to have a comparison.</div>
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                        <div>Gilles Caulier</div>
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                          <div class="gmail_quote">2016-07-22 19:35
                            GMT+02:00 Gilles Caulier <span dir="ltr"><<a
                                moz-do-not-send="true"
                                href="mailto:caulier.gilles@gmail.com"
                                target="_blank"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:caulier.gilles@gmail.com">caulier.gilles@gmail.com</a></a>></span>:<br>
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                              <div dir="ltr">From my experience sqlite
                                use must be limited to 100Gb of images.
                                For more, use Mysql. You can use
                                internal server, no need a remote
                                server. In this case, it will be used as
                                sqlite.<span><font color="#888888">
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                                    <div>Gilles Caulier</div>
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                                    <div class="gmail_quote">2016-07-22
                                      19:31 GMT+02:00 Simon Frei <span
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                                          target="_blank"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:freisim93@gmail.com">freisim93@gmail.com</a></a>></span>:<br>
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                                          text="#000000"> Compiled from
                                          software-compilation. Git core
                                          is on commit c9f02e0.
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                                              <div>On 22/07/16 19:14,
                                                Gilles Caulier wrote:<br>
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                                                <div dir="ltr">Which
                                                  digiKam version do you
                                                  use ?
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                                                  <div>Gilles Caulier</div>
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                                                    class="gmail_quote">2016-07-22
                                                    17:32 GMT+02:00
                                                    Simon Frei <span
                                                      dir="ltr"><<a
                                                        moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:freisim93@gmail.com" target="_blank"><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:freisim93@gmail.com">freisim93@gmail.com</a></a>></span>:<br>
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                                                      solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi<br>
                                                      I do not have
                                                      enough detailed
                                                      information to
                                                      file a bug and
                                                      something similar
                                                      might already be
                                                      reported. Still I
                                                      wanted to inform
                                                      you about it.
                                                      Maybe it helps in
                                                      some way.<br>
                                                      I just made
                                                      changes to a big
                                                      set of images
                                                      (350G) outside of
                                                      digikam (metadata
                                                      writing with
                                                      exiftool). So it
                                                      took quite some
                                                      time searching for
                                                      new items after
                                                      startup
                                                      (notification on
                                                      the bottom left),
                                                      but never used cpu
                                                      or ram very hard.
                                                      After some time
                                                      however digikam
                                                      became
                                                      unresponsive, just
                                                      a grey frame. The
                                                      commandline did
                                                      show that it was
                                                      still working in
                                                      the background,
                                                      the following was
                                                      displayed
                                                      repeatedly:<br>
                                                      digikam.dimg:
                                                      "*somefile*"  :
                                                      JPEG file
                                                      identified<br>
digikam.metaengine: Orientation => Exif.Image.Orientation => 1<br>
                                                      So digikam was
                                                      still functioning,
                                                      just not the gui
                                                      and still digikam
                                                      did load the
                                                      computer, but not
                                                      overload. After a
                                                      certain time
                                                      digikam resurfaced
                                                      and worked fine.<br>
                                                      Cheers,<br>
                                                      Simon<br>
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