<div dir="ltr">WAAAAAHHHHHHHH! :-) Yes 64GB. And now everything makes sense. Moreover I had a try with: <span style="font-family:monospace"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">digiKam-8.1.0-20230617T074456-x86-64.appimage </span><br></span>The difference is tremendous. Thanks a lot!<br><br>Tonio</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 6:42 PM Maik Qualmann <<a href="mailto:metzpinguin@gmail.com">metzpinguin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Is the specification of 64GB for the memory correct?<br>
With this size, we calculate the image cache incorrectly, only a very 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>
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Maik<br>
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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>
> <a href="https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/205608/intel-nuc-11-pro" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/205608/intel-nuc-11-pro</a><br>
> -mini-pc-nuc11tnkv7/specifications.html). My picture collection became huge,<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 this<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 internal<br>
> SSD but this leads exactly to the 3 seconds from above, external USB-drive<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 a<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 with<br>
> my system. Is SQLLite a problem in my setting? Or are the 3 seconds just my<br>
> fate because of the many megapixel...<br>
> <br>
> Best wishes & tnx<br>
> <br>
> Tonio<br>
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