[Digikam-users] Import speed, is it really that slow?
buedi
buedi at gmx.net
Sat Feb 4 16:23:32 GMT 2012
Hi everyone,
since I got a new Camera I looked around which kind of Software I
could use to manage my Photos. digiKam looks like it fits very well,
so I gave it a shot (or two in this case).
First, I installed it in a VM just to play around with it a little
bit. To get some Photos into digiKam I used the "Import from foreign
PC / location". I did this for 47 Photos (Jpeg, ~6MB each) and it took
20 minutes. I thought it´s because it runs in a VM which can make some
things much slower.
After a while I installed it native on my PC (Windows 7 x64, Core
i5 at 4.5GHz and 4 GB RAM) and did an import for the same 47 pictures.
This time it took 17 minutes. While the Import process was running
there was no considerable CPU activity (3-15%, so not even 1 core
running full), no noticable HDD activity and no Network traffic (this
time I advised digiKam to save the pictures on my NAS).
Also while the Import process was running that slow, digiKam sometimes
did not react to my Input. What I mean is, that when a process hangs
you cannot click into the Window. It seems like digiKam grabbed one
pic and just sitted there and did nothing for a while and then grabbed
the next picture.
Since it´s my first day with digiKam I´m probably doing something
wrong. Can someone help me here or is the import process really that
slow? If yes, I think I need a long holiday to import my hundreds of
pictures.
Regards,
buedi
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