[Digikam-users] lots of photos and startup time

[Andi Clemens]

Here is the little patch...

Andi

On Wednesday 12 August 2009 11:35:49 Andi Clemens wrote:
> I tested this startup issue again and these are my results for a 50.000
> images collection:
>
> 1. MarbleWidget: 6s
> 2. Database Scan: 13s
>
> I disabled MarbleWidget and tested it again, yes it is faster.
> To measure the startup time, you need to always drop the disk caches,
> otherwise the results are useless. As root:
>
> sync
> echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
>
> I then moved the AlbumManager::startScan() into a slot, that is called
> 100ms after the DigikamApp constructor has been run.
>
> This way it feels faster, the only drawback now is that the app appears
> empty, and the images begin to fly in.
> Still much better than waiting over 22 seconds for digiKam to appear.
>
> I guess the best would be to have album scanning in its own thread, so that
> scanning can be started while DigikamApp() is running through.
>
> Is this possible? Can we run this in a separate thread?
>
> I will attach the patch to this mail, so you can test it. On smaller
> collections it works fine, on bigger a thread might be a good solution.
>
> Andi
>
> On Tuesday 07 July 2009 11:37:54 Jacek Poplawski wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I use Digikam to organize my photo collection and manage all the photos,
> > the main problem is startup time. I have more than 20.000 photos on disk.
> > Well in fact I have even more if I include archives from last years. But
> > I put only these 20.000 in Digikam collections.
> >
> > When I start Digikam it takes _minutes_, if I just want to find one
> > single photo I need to wait few minutes first. Or use different
> > application like geeqie (I store photos as RAW files, but geeqie knows
> > how to show them).
> >
> > I disabled checking for new files at startup but still it takes lots of
> > time to just read the database.
> > Picasa doesn't have this problem.
> >
> > Is it a bug? Should I just put less files in Digikam collections and
> > organize them by file manager instead Digikam?
>
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