[Digikam-users] How long should digikam take to start first time with ~ 25k images?

[Henrique Santos Fernandes]

Gilles,

There is a conf to sed the database file?
Cause i have SSD only for my system, but i guess it would harm to have
digikam database there as well.

All media is stored in a 2TB SATA righ now it includes the database.


Em Mon Feb 09 2015 at 14:03:50, Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>
escreveu:

> Scanning progress at first run is very time consuming and run, for the
> moment, only on one CPU core.
>
> Process is this one :
>
> Scan album
>     Scan items in albums
>         for each items, read metadata and register info to DB.
>
> Read metadata is long and delegate to Exiv2 shared lib.
> Register info to DB is long with SQlite.
>
> In all case, i'm not sure if multicore will help here. Reading
> metadata on more than one CPU will not increase speed, because of hard
> drive speed limitation. If you use a SSD, it can be better of course.
>
> Register info in DB, will introduce lock due to multiple access at the
> same time.
>
> My current solution is : Use a SSD to store at least the DB file.
> Performance are really improved.
>
> Better, use a SSD to store image. Here i use a 1Tb Samsung SSD.
> Workflow become incredible. SSD price decrease each months. Don't
> hesitate to switch from HDD to SSD.
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
> 2015-02-09 16:54 GMT+01:00 Henrique Santos Fernandes <sf.rique at gmail.com>:
> > I guess 30 min to scan is not that bad.
> >
> > Em Mon Feb 09 2015 at 13:50:32, <cl at isbd.net> escreveu:
> >
> >> Henrique Santos Fernandes <sf.rique at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> > What do you mean by "First Time"  ??
> >> >
> >> > The first scan time or just open digikam after a reboot?
> >> >
> >> The first scan time.
> >>
> >> > For me just to open after a reboot it takes less than a minute.. and i
> >> > have
> >> > 17k of images.
> >> >
> >> > For scan time i don't have a reference...
> >> >
> >> > My images are in a normal 7200 RPM 2TB Sata driver.
> >> >
> >>
> >> It has finished now but it took about 30 minutes.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Chris Green
> >> ·
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