[Digikam-users] Digikam slow

[Dotan Cohen]

On 02/12/2007, Mikolaj Machowski <mikmach at wp.pl> wrote:
> Dnia Saturday 01 of December 2007, Dotan Cohen napisał:
> > The system: Ubuntu Feisty on AMD Duron 1.3 GHz, 1GB RAM, KDE 3.5.6,
> > Digikm 0.9.2, 13,100 pictures in Digikam library which is on it's own
> > disk partition. KDE thumbnails cache opened up to 100MB.
> >
> > The problem: Digikam is so slow that it is nearly unusable. When we
> > open a folder/album in digikam we must wait 8 seconds before we see
> > thumbnails. Then, they trickle in at 0.87 sec per thumbnail (200
> > thumbnails in two minutes, 54 seconds on the clock). When a photo is
> > deleted, we wait 8 seconds before there is any UI reaction.
> >
> > All apps run sluggish on this machine, but Digikam is really bad. What
> > can I do to tweak it a bit? I may be an old timer, but in my opinion a
> > 1300 MHz processor (with 1024MB RAM) should not be this bad.
>
> What disk do you have?
> What returns:
>
> hdparm -tT {device}

On an otherwise idle system, I get this for the drive on which
/home/user/pictures is running:
ubuntu at ubuntu-desktop:~$ sudo hdparm -tT /dev/sdb1
Password:

/dev/sdb1:
 Timing cached reads:   340 MB in  2.01 seconds = 169.46 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  190 MB in  3.03 seconds =  62.79 MB/sec
ubuntu at ubuntu-desktop:~$

Dotan Cohen

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