[Digikam-users] Any thoughts on RAM needs?

[Rinus Bakker]

I have toubles with performance too,
If I select a tag in left pane all images are shown immediatly, but if I use
rightpane filters, the pc becomes almost unresponsive after the first
search, why?

and I see no much use for a bug report saying ¨help my computer is so slow¨
so I hope one day figure out why.
In the past I put some messages in the list about it without success, maybe
we have a good starting point now.

We need people with technical insight in this discussion.

thanks julien for the
free -m command

obvious installing 4GB doesn´t help much.
How about this, can anyone comment on it:
jansen at jansen-HP-Pavilion-dv7-Notebook-PC:~$ free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          3705       3672         32          0       1359       1307
-/+ buffers/cache:       1006       2698
Swap:         6171          0       6171
jansen at jansen-HP-Pavilion-dv7-Notebook-PC:~$

Rinus






2011/9/13 Julien T <julien.t43 at gmail.com>

> I am on Linux Ubuntu and only with 1GB (netbook) and painfully slow. I
> think 2 or 4GB are definately the way to go if possible. Don't know if
> there is other way to "optimize" things. I hope there is.
>
> big databases
> $ ls -lh ~/Images/*.db
> -rw-r--r-- 1 julien julien 172M 2011-09-13 09:32
> /home/julien/Images/digikam4.db
> -rw-r--r-- 1 julien julien 1,6G 2011-09-11 09:39
> /home/julien/Images/thumbnails-digikam.db
> $ free -m
>             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> Mem:           990        976         14          0         10        185
> -/+ buffers/cache:        779        211
> Swap:         1951        417       1534
> $ pmap 3269|egrep '[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]K' |sort -k 2 -n
> b19f5000  10284K rwxs-  /var/tmp/kdecache-julien/icon-cache.kcache
> b56b8000  10284K rwxs-  /var/tmp/kdecache-julien/icon-cache.kcache
> 4357c000  10700K r-x--  /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4.7.2
> aaf2e000  12332K rwx--    [ anon ]
> b065f000  15860K rwxs-  /var/tmp/kdecache-julien/kpc/kde-icon-cache.data
> b4322000  15860K rwxs-  /var/tmp/kdecache-julien/kpc/kde-icon-cache.data
> 97b66000  16400K r-x--  /usr/share/fonts/truetype/wqy/wqy-zenhei.ttc
> a2884000  16400K r-x--  /usr/share/fonts/truetype/wqy/wqy-zenhei.ttc
> a157b000  19492K rwx--    [ anon ]
> 46ced000  19648K r-x--  /usr/lib/libQtWebKit.so.4.7.2
> 92d54000  20564K r-x--  /usr/share/fonts/truetype/arphic/uming.ttc
> 98b6a000  20564K r-x--  /usr/share/fonts/truetype/arphic/uming.ttc
> a0166000  20564K r-x--  /usr/share/fonts/truetype/arphic/uming.ttc
> 09020000  44100K rwx--    [ anon ]
> 873a2000  47708K rwx--    [ anon ]
> 94169000  47708K rwx--    [ anon ]
> a5f2a000  65540K rwxs-  /dev/shm/pulse-shm-2408409839
> ac4e3000  65540K rwxs-  /dev/shm/pulse-shm-915678883
>  total   812132K
>
> Cheers,
>
> Julien
>
> 2011/9/13, Paul Verizzo <paulv at paulv.net>:
> > Running on Windows XP, dK opens LOTS of running processes, mostly
> > something called kioslave.exe.  All told, right about 600K total.  I'm
> > down to 2 GB, having had a couple of sticks fail over time.  In process
> > buying more.
> >
> > Adobe Photoshop Elements takes 48K.  Quite a difference, although since
> > I hate Adobe products generally and RAM is relatively cheap, I've no
> > problem with dK's memory appetite.
> >
> > (Both memory requirements are noted after only opening the programs.
> > I've seen the kioslave.exe numbers go up and down during use.)
> >
> > But regardless, I was wondering if there is any official advice or
> > observations beyond "More is better!"  I have no idea how much dK takes
> > in Linux.
> >
> > ???????
> >
> > Paul
> >
> >
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