[Digikam-users] lots of photos and startup time

[Chris G]

On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 12:33:59PM +0200, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> 
> 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.
> >
> And which FS to host DB and collections (can be differents)
> 
It's all EXT3 on a single local disk.

    /dev/sdb1 on /home type ext3 (rw,relatime)

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Chris Green