[Digikam-users] lots of photos and startup time

[Gilles Caulier]

And which FS to host DB and collections (can be differents)

Gilles

2009/7/9 Chris G <cl at isbd.net>:
> On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 12:16:08PM +0200, Daniel Bauer wrote:
>> On Thursday 09 July 2009 10:37:13, Andi Clemens wrote:
>> > ...
>> >
>> > Daniel,
>> > how many items  / images do you have in your database?
>> > In my current test collection, I have 200.000, but my database is only
>> > 180MB big.
>> >
>> > Maybe yours is really corrupted (or has a lot of old entries, that you
>> > might need to delete manually).
>> >
>> > If you have less images, you could try to remove all entries from the table
>> > "images" that have a status of 3 (deleted).
>>
>> Hi Andi,
>>
>> As I cleaned up my laptop last week there are now only the actual 9086 image
>> files in digikam. The db file is 1.6 MB. But please keep in mind that I still
>> use digikam 0.9.3.
>>
>> However, after a reboot, starting digikam takes 66 seconds until the splash
>> screen appears and then another 10 seconds to appear the album.
>>
>> At home (with many, many more images) it takes much longer, so that I start it
>> and then go and have a coffee. This applies only to the *first* start of
>> digikam, later starts are much faster.
>>
>> I also have a kde4-digikam 0.10.0.The splash screen appeard immediately - and
>> styed there for 28 Minutes untill  I killed the process, renamed digikam4.db
>> and restartet 0.10.0.. It shows me that it imports/updates the database...
>> After 21 minutes it's is finally here.... One reason I decided to stay with
>> the old version....
>>
>> The new digikam4.db is 4.5 MB.
>>
>> in the 0.9.3 images table there is no field called "status"...
>>
> I have something over 20000 images in my digikam and the digikam4.db
> is something like 17Mb.  I've just moved to xubuntu 9.04 which has
> digikam version 0.10.0.
>
> Starting up the *first* time in xubuntu 9.04 took a minute or so (I
> didn't time it), starting up subsequently, even on a clean, just
> rebooted, system takes around ten seconds.
>
> This is on an Intel quad core based system with (if I remember right)
> 8Gb of memory.
>
> --
> Chris Green
>
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