[Digikam-users] Any thoughts on RAM needs?

[Rinus Bakker]

digiKam version 2.1.0
Images:
BMP: 34
GIF: 9
JPEG: 37
JPG: 25644
PENTAX-PEF: 94
PNG: 675
PPM: 2
RAW-DNG: 450
RAW-PEF: 13995
TIFF: 796
XCF: 9
total: 41745
:
:
Videos:
AVI: 17
MP4: 1
WMV: 3
total: 21
:
:
Total Items: 41766
Albums: 865
Tags: 1366
Database backend: QSQLITE


Example. I do text search for ¨evelien¨ I t takes about one minute to find.

In left pane tag view, it takes 1/100 of a second, I can even blink my eyes.
Rinus




2011/9/13 Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>

> 2011/9/13 Rinus Bakker <sleeplessregulus at gmail.com>:
> > 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?
>
> unresponsive can be due to query database through digiKam KIO Slave (a
> separated process based on KDE API to query BD)
>
> SQlite (if you use it), cannot be queried using multithreading. A
> separate process is used instead to not freeze GUI with long query.
>
> I tried here with my 2Gb computer, and both, tags view and filters
> view are fast.
>
> Which filters you use in right sidebar ? Which DB backend you use ?
> How many items are managed in your computer (Help/DB stats) ?
>
> Gilles Caulier
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