[Digikam-users] lots of photos and startup time

[Andi Clemens]

Ok I found one issue with that approach: somehow AdvancedSlideshow will be 
disabled, but all the other kipi-plugins seem to work. I guess this indicates 
a problem with the plugin itself....?

Andi

On Wednesday 12 August 2009 11:37:38 Andi Clemens wrote:
> 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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