[Digikam-users] Difference between collection types

[Paul Waldo]

Hi Gilles,

Yea, yea, I know... :-)  I store the sqlite file on a mounted samba share, so it looks local.  I just make sure that only one Digikam accesses it it the same time.

Paul
----- "Gilles Caulier" <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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