[Digikam-users] lots of photos and startup time

[Andi Clemens]

On Wednesday 08 July 2009 10:22:16 Daniel Larsson wrote:
> 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.
>
>
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> 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.

One hour? Seriously?
Then your system is broken, this is really not normal.
Even with reiserFS I had never such bad startup times.
Not even 5 Minutes.
DB access has been improved already and this is not what slows down the 
startup so much, we don't query a lot during the application starts.

I really would consider to try another filesystem, or run a check (with 
badblocks if possible), maybe the partition you use is about to die?

Andi