[Digikam-users] Re: Digikam startup takes ~ 30 hours

[David Kerber]

On 5/10/2011 8:11 AM, Benjamin Harders wrote:
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> Hi!
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> For the last start-up of digikam I had to wait about 30 hours. *that is
> not funny*
> I was a little little bit not amused, when digikam crashed one hour
> after the successful start, while I changed one word in the tag filter
> field on the right bottom - obviously too quickly.
> Digikam uses 80M RAM after a few minutes of start-up procedure. It
> increases kilobyte by kilobyte until it comes to more than 400M RAM
> after 30 hours. All the time there is a little network traffic ~
> 300kbit/s in both directions.
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> Some facts on my system:
> Suse 11.4 64bit 4G RAM
> NAS Synology 410 Gbit LAN
> Mysql on that NAS
> ~ 360000 photos
> Digikam 1.9.0-8.14
>
> i need your help to find out something...
>
> Thank you for some hints!

Do you have a large picture library that it is indexing?  My first 
startup after adding a bunch of pics takes a lot longer, as it goes 
through and indexes them.  In my case, the pics are over a 100Mbps 
network link, which probably slows it down a bit compared to being on a 
local HD.