[Digikam-users] Difference between collection types

[Gilles Caulier]

2009/6/12 Paul Waldo <paul at waldoware.com>:
> Hi Marcel,
>
> The slow startup time seems to be DB related.  Just for fun, I moved the DB to a local drive.  The startup time was half or a quarter of the time with the DB on the NAS.  Also, I saw the CPU get pegged for a good bit of the time (yay!).


SQlite do not support remote DB file hosted on NFS or Samba. It's a
sqlite limitation. In digiKam setup dialog is clear. Look all tip
words...

Gilles Caulier

>
> I have no idea how sqlite accesses a DB on what it thinks is a local file, but this seems like quite a hint to me that I need to make the DB local.  Maybe Digikam could have a setting to make DB backups in the background...?
>
> Paul
> ----- "Marcel Wiesweg" <marcel.wiesweg at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> A complete scan of 26994 pictures on 39GB, 99% JPEGs, took 12 minutes
>> and 20
>> seconds in a short test while writing this mail. A normal application
>> start
>> uses <5s for the scan if no files are new. That's local harddisk.
>> I dont know what is causing the huge performance drop over network
>> storage.
>> In 15h, 3.5s/picture, you could transfer 900MB of data for every
>> picture over
>> the network.
>>
>>
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