[Digikam-users] lots of photos and startup time

[Gilles Caulier]

2009/7/9 Milan Knížek <knizek.confy at volny.cz>:
> Milan Knížek píše v Út 07. 07. 2009 v 23:22 +0200:
>> Andi Clemens píše v Út 07. 07. 2009 v 13:12 +0200:
>> > Hmm seems to be a reiserFS problem, since every one reporting this is using
>> > reiserFS, also the older reports are talking about reiser.
>> >
>> Yes, it could be reiserfs. Until recently (a week ago or so), I have
>> been using ext3 [1] and did not notice such a long startup.
>>
>> Now it takes about three minutes to load 15 thousand images (the splash
>> screen shows "reading database") for the first run after PC reboot.
>> Iotop shows average read activity 600 kB/s. (I have 4 GB RAM on amd64
>> with digiKam 0.10.0, ubuntu.)
>>
>> If I quit digiKam and start again, it takes about 5 seconds....
>>
>> Flushing cache does not lead to expected long startup time - just about
>> 13 seconds.
>>
> Despite wories about stability, I moved my desktop single filesystem
> from reiser to ext4 (simply backup / restore & update grub + fstab).
>
> Voila, digiKam starts in about 20 seconds (15 thousand images) after
> reboot, subsequent starts are within 5 seconds.

Can you remember me the time with reiserfs ?

Gilles