[Digikam-users] lots of photos and startup time

[Daniel Larsson]

IMHO the 2 seconds mor or less with splash enabled is not to much to bother about.

I think the real time savings can be made in read and write performance to the db.

All gains in performance is welcome but in my case I want a reduction in minutes before bothering with seconds.

 

On my Ubuntu Studio 9.04 system I have now installed their kernel 2.6.31 rc2 and start time is reduced considerably. From close to one houer to mere five minutes. Flickering has reapperd but settles fast.

 

How this is done I do not know, mabye new algoritm in kernel?

/D.L.
 
> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 20:23:55 +0200
> From: caulier.gilles at gmail.com
> To: digikam-users at kde.org
> Subject: Re: [Digikam-users] lots of photos and startup time
> 
> 2009/7/7 Andi Clemens <andi.clemens at gmx.net>:
> > Ok, it really is a little bit slower WITH the splash enabled then without it.
> > Approximately 2 seconds... weird.
> 
> ok. i have also see a similar delay.
> 
> This can be explained by the way to redraw full pixmap of splashscreen
> instead only the space where text is displayed.
> 
> Gilles
> 
> >
> > Andi
> >
> > On Tuesday 07 July 2009 20:12:01 Andi Clemens wrote:
> >> Oh I have not "scanning" enabled. But I will do so now...
> >>
> >> Andi
> >>
> >> On Tuesday 07 July 2009 20:00:21 Gilles Caulier wrote:
> >> > 2009/7/7 Andi Clemens <andi.clemens at gmx.net>:
> >> > > Hmm Gilles I don't have a progress bar when I disable the splashscreen.
> >> > > Am I misunderstanding you here?
> >> > > But it is not faster or slower, now that the splash is disabled.
> >> >
> >> > Here i have progress dialog, if scan at startup is enable.
> >> >
> >> > In theory, this must be the same time, but mechanisms in code to post
> >> > progress is a little bit different.
> >> >
> >> > Gilles
> >> >
> >> > > Andi
> >> > >
> >> > > On Tuesday 07 July 2009 19:55:42 Andi Clemens wrote:
> >> > >> Hmm there is something different then the splashcreen? Never seen
> >> > >> that! ;-)
> >> > >> Ok I will check. But again for me startup time is quite normal, I
> >> > >> don't think 7 seconds is too much for so many images (and remember,
> >> > >> all libs need to be loaded on first run, too).
> >> > >> But over 1 minute and more is strange and has been reported a lot for
> >> > >> reiserFS partitions.
> >> > >>
> >> > >> I will create a reiserFS partition later on and test it.
> >> > >>
> >> > >> Andi
> >> > >>
> >> > >> On Tuesday 07 July 2009 19:48:22 Gilles Caulier wrote:
> >> > >> > Andi,
> >> > >> >
> >> > >> > just a stupid question : do you run splashscreen at startup or
> >> > >> > progress dialog ? Can you switch to check the difference ?
> >> > >> >
> >> > >> > Gilles Caulier
> >> > >> >
> >> > >> > 2009/7/7 Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com>:
> >> > >> > > On Tuesday 07 July 2009, Andi Clemens wrote:
> >> > >> > >> Hmm seems to be a reiserFS problem, since every one reporting
> >> > >> > >> this is using reiserFS, also the older reports are talking about
> >> > >> > >> reiser.
> >> > >> > >
> >> > >> > > Takes me 1:20  on an EXT3 disk running XFCE  and Digikam  0.10.0
> >> > >> > >
> >> > >> > > One problem I have is that all of my pictures are in two albums,
> >> > >> > > but they are the same album.   In otherwords, two albums pointing
> >> > >> > > to the same directory. So it may be doing twice the work when it
> >> > >> > > wouldn't have to.
> >> > >> > >
> >> > >> > > I haven't yet figured out a way to get rid of the duplicate since
> >> > >> > > eliminating one album would delete all of the pictures in it!!
> >> > >> > > Don't know why Digikam was designed to operate that way.  You
> >> > >> > > should be able to remove an album from Digikam  without having to
> >> > >> > > delete anything.
> >> > >> > >
> >> > >> > > _______________________________________________
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> >> > >> > > Digikam-users at kde.org
> >> > >> > > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users
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