[Digikam-users] lots of photos and startup time

[Daniel Svärd]

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Jacek
Poplawski<jacekpoplawski at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:44 PM, Andi Clemens <andi.clemens at gmx.net> 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)?
>
> AFAIR it's ReiserFS.

I have the same problem with ReiserFS. With a collection of about 8700
photos first startup takes about 1 min 20 sec, subsequent startups
about 5 sec.

Daniel