[Digikam-users] lots of photos and startup time

[Andi Clemens]

And just one more note: those 10-20 seconds startup time are only true for the 
first start of course, after that digiKam is up in less then 3 seconds.

I just timed it correctly, without the thumbDB and all caches cleared:
sudo sync
sudo echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches

it takes 7 seconds on first startup, with thumbDB enabled 15 seconds (but this 
is another story).

Andi

On Tuesday 07 July 2009 12:44:49 Andi Clemens wrote:
> The question is why it takes minutes?
> I have a collection with over 200.000 images, it starts quite fast (ok KDE3
> version is faster, but still it takes only 10-20 seconds, depending on my
> system cache).
>
> Which filesystem do you use (for images and the digikam database)?
>
> Andi
>
> On Tuesday 07 July 2009 12:41:03 Gilles Caulier wrote:
> > 2009/7/7 Jacek Poplawski <jacekpoplawski at gmail.com>:
> > > 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?
> >
> > There is already a thread in this room about this subject and an entry
> > in bugzilla...
> >
> > Gilles Caulier
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