I was suspicious about the db being broken and was hoping for that (it can be fixed) and was fearing that (it cause an awfull lot of work)<br>Putting the answers of Gilles and Remco together makes me even more suspicious about that scenario.<br>
<br>That´s why I came with this question a while ago:<br>I suppose that the db becomes more and more messy by adding, removing
and readding etc etc, I wonder if someone knows if and if, how it is
possible to optimize the db in order to have quicker search capabillity.<br>
A few filtering actions can make it quite unresponsive.<br><br>and with this question:<br>Does anyone know if this<br>cleanup_digikamdb.1 by Andy Clemens<br>is still valid to use with current digikam db?<br><br>And any ideas what to do with that cleanup_digikamdb.1 file?<br>
<br><br><br>If there is a way of fixing I would prefer to try before starting all over again.<br><br>Thanks<br>Rinus<br><br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/9/13 Remco Viëtor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:remco.vietor@wanadoo.fr">remco.vietor@wanadoo.fr</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">On Tuesday 13 September 2011 12:14:32 Rinus Bakker wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">> How about this, can anyone comment on it:<br>
> jansen@jansen-HP-Pavilion-dv7-Notebook-PC:~$ free -m<br>
> total used free shared buffers cached<br>
> Mem: 3705 3672 32 0 1359 1307<br>
> -/+ buffers/cache: 1006 2698<br>
> Swap: 6171 0 6171<br>
> jansen@jansen-HP-Pavilion-dv7-Notebook-PC:~$<br>
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</div>One of the particularities of Linux is that any free RAM can be used to cache<br>
disk reads, so the 'free' part of the 'Mem' line shows less free memory than<br>
would be available to programs running (the 'cached' part can also be used for<br>
program memory, slowing disk I/O a bit).<br>
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Swap (being disk space) isn't used for caching, so there the 'free' value is<br>
correct. In this case, there's no swapping to disk ('used' is zero), so the OS<br>
has still enough free RAM to work with, and lack of free RAM doesn't cause the<br>
slowness (swapping to and from disk is slow...). Adding memory wouldn't have<br>
much of an effect if this is the worst case...<br>
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