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Yes, I am serious. I do not think that the partition is bad or the HDD is about to die, non of the drives I use are older than 2 years. FS is EXT4. Maby you are right about the broken system but I only notice it in digiKam. Maby I have to reinstall the system but it wount be this week as I am suposed to give two lectures on digiKam this week.<BR> <BR>> From: andi.clemens@gmx.net<BR>> To: digikam-users@kde.org<BR>> Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 10:43:14 +0200<BR>> Subject: Re: [Digikam-users] lots of photos and startup time<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> On Wednesday 08 July 2009 10:22:16 Daniel Larsson wrote:<BR>> > IMHO the 2 seconds mor or less with splash enabled is not to much to bother<BR>> > about.<BR>> ><BR>> > I think the real time savings can be made in read and write performance to<BR>> > the db.<BR>> ><BR>> > All gains in performance is welcome but in my case I want a reduction in<BR>> > minutes before bothering with seconds.<BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> > On my Ubuntu Studio 9.04 system I have now installed their kernel 2.6.31<BR>> > rc2 and start time is reduced considerably. From close to one houer to mere<BR>> > five minutes. Flickering has reapperd but settles fast.<BR>> <BR>> One hour? Seriously?<BR>> Then your system is broken, this is really not normal.<BR>> Even with reiserFS I had never such bad startup times.<BR>> Not even 5 Minutes.<BR>> DB access has been improved already and this is not what slows down the <BR>> startup so much, we don't query a lot during the application starts.<BR>> <BR>> I really would consider to try another filesystem, or run a check (with <BR>> badblocks if possible), maybe the partition you use is about to die?<BR>> <BR>> Andi<BR>> <BR>> _______________________________________________<BR>> Digikam-users mailing list<BR>> Digikam-users@kde.org<BR>> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users<BR><br /><hr />Hitta kärleken lagom till sommaren! Klicka här <a href='http://dejting.se.msn.com/channel/index.aspx?trackingid=1002952' target='_new'>MSN Dejting</a></body>
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