[Digikam-users] Digikam needs about 10 minutes to start

[tuk37]

My collection: more than 30k images in more than 1k subdirectories with 
more than 60GB.
FS is ext4. Hardware: No SSD, "HITACHI HTS72503" - I think it's 7200RPM.
top - "wa" about 20%
iostat -m 10:
Linux 3.0.0-16-generic (Killerkaninchen-desktop)      08.03.2012      
_i686_  (4 CPU)
avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
            1,90    0,00    0,97   30,84    0,00   66,28
Device:            tps    MB_read/s    MB_wrtn/s    MB_read    MB_wrtn
sda             158,20         2,04         0,00         20          0
avg-cpu:  %user   %nice %system %iowait  %steal   %idle
            0,90    0,00    1,00   21,11    0,00   76,99
Device:            tps    MB_read/s    MB_wrtn/s    MB_read    MB_wrtn
sda             148,60         1,95         0,00         19          0

More detailed: http://www.wuala.com/cathbad/iostat/

> Hello,
>
> How big is your image collection?  When you looked at "top" did you
> see a lot of "wa"?  Can you also run "iostat -m 10" when you start
> Digikam to see if there is a lot of activity on the disk?  What kind of
> hard-drive are you using (5400RPM, 7200RPM, SSD)?  On what kind of file
> system is your image collection stored?
>
> Personaly, I have over 30K images in my collection on a Intel Core 2Duo
> with 3GM RAM and a 500GB 7200RPM HD and Digikam starts in a few seconds.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Samuel