<div dir="auto">With raw photos and panoramic photos it is not unusual with each photo being between 20-50MB each. </div><div dir="auto">1GB is only 20 photos of 50 MB. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I would really like at least an option to specify cache size manually to either a specific size or as a percentage of physical ram. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Would it be problematic to add such option? </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I have a 16GB MacBook also in which I would very much like more than 1GB on as well. Because when I do serious photo stuff I don’t do much else. So I would like to utilize my resources. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The penalty of not having an image in cache often involves fetching it over the network on a SAN. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">man. 26. jun. 2023 kl. 22.18 skrev Maik Qualmann <<a href="mailto:metzpinguin@gmail.com">metzpinguin@gmail.com</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">I adjusted it again, from about 16GB main memory it will be about 1 GB cache. <br>
Much more doesn't make sense since we always preload two images into the cache <br>
(before and after the current position). Depending on the size of the images, <br>
more will be retained when scrolling back and forth.<br>
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Maik<br>
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Am Montag, 26. Juni 2023, 22:07:06 CEST schrieb Tonio Kroeger:<br>
> WAAAAAHHHHHHHH! :-) Yes 64GB. And now everything makes sense. Moreover I<br>
> had a try with: digiKam-8.1.0-20230617T074456-x86-64.appimage<br>
> The difference is tremendous. Thanks a lot!<br>
> <br>
> Tonio<br>
> <br>
> On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 6:42 PM Maik Qualmann <<a href="mailto:metzpinguin@gmail.com" target="_blank">metzpinguin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> > Is the specification of 64GB for the memory correct?<br>
> > With this size, we calculate the image cache incorrectly, only a very<br>
> > small<br>
> > cache is created, so no larger images are preloaded in the preview. The<br>
> > problem will be fixed in digiKam-8.1.0.<br>
> > <br>
> > Maik<br>
> > <br>
> > Am Montag, 26. Juni 2023, 18:12:19 CEST schrieb Tonio Kroeger:<br>
> > > Hi all,<br>
> > > <br>
> > > I am an enthusiastic digikam user for nearly 20 years now!<br>
> > > <br>
> > > I am running 8.0.0. on an I7 under Linux with plenty of RAM (<br>
> > <br>
> > <a href="https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/205608/intel-nuc-11-p" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/205608/intel-nuc-11-p</a><br>
> > ro> <br>
> > > -mini-pc-nuc11tnkv7/specifications.html). My picture collection became<br>
> > <br>
> > huge,<br>
> > <br>
> > > about 8TB (also many RAW files, roughly 300.000 Jpegs), and I still use<br>
> > > SQLLite for the database.<br>
> > > <br>
> > > In general everything works fine but when I switch to another picture<br>
> > <br>
> > this<br>
> > <br>
> > > takes up to 3 seconds. This is very anyoing especially when sorting out<br>
> > > pictures. For the latter purpose I store incoming pictues on the<br>
> > > internal<br>
> > > SSD but this leads exactly to the 3 seconds from above, external<br>
> > <br>
> > USB-drive<br>
> > <br>
> > > is worse but not as worse as I would expect. I tried to precache all<br>
> > > pictures into RAM, that did not significantly help. When I lower the<br>
> > > maximal CPU frequency this seems to scale linearly with the time to show<br>
> > <br>
> > a<br>
> > <br>
> > > new picture.<br>
> > > <br>
> > > Over the years my pictures became larger and larger. Today I have Jpegs<br>
> > > around 20MB. (5MB Pics from my IPhone show up very fast.)<br>
> > > <br>
> > > I wonder whether someone can give a hint where I might have an issue<br>
> > > with<br>
> > > my system. Is SQLLite a problem in my setting? Or are the 3 seconds just<br>
> > <br>
> > my<br>
> > <br>
> > > fate because of the many megapixel...<br>
> > > <br>
> > > Best wishes & tnx<br>
> > > <br>
> > > Tonio<br>
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