Very, very slow tagging

[Maik Qualmann]

Your value for Load_Cycle_Count is very extreme. WD hard drive? Do a reading 
test with hdparm -tT /dev/sdb1

Maik

Am Freitag, 3. November 2017, 22:22:23 CET schrieb digikam at 911networks.com:
> On Fri, 03 Nov 2017 22:06:26 +0100
> 
> Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Are you sure that the drive is not broken? I see times between 2 to
> > 10 seconds, but also up to 17 seconds in the log for reading the
> > image information. These times should probably not be greater than
> > 200 ms on your machine. I think the problem is outside of digiKam.
> 
> unlikely to be the drive, it's a 3 years old drive 2Tb.
> 
> The other thing is that it's a small database (2100 images) with most of it
> in memory, it's CPU cycles that max out: the 8 cores at 100%.
> 
> smartctl reports: no error logged
> 
> .....................................
> SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
> 
> ...
> ... plenty of other stuff ...
> ...
> ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED 
> WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x002f   200   200   051   
> Pre-fail  Always       -       0 3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0027   167  
> 163   021    Pre-fail  Always       -       6641 4 Start_Stop_Count       
> 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       910 5
> Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   200   200   140    Pre-fail  Always      
> -       0 7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x002e   200   200   000    Old_age  
> Always       -       0 9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   063   063   000  
>  Old_age   Always       -       27466 10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0032  
> 100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0 11
> Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always      
> -       0 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age  
> Always       -       845 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   200   200  
> 000    Old_age   Always       -       87 193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032
>   001   001   000    Old_age   Always       -       1799713 194
> Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   123   105   000    Old_age   Always      
> -       27 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age 
>  Always       -       0 197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   200   200  
> 000    Old_age   Always       -       21 198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030
>   200   200   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0 199
> UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always      
> -       0 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x0008   200   200   000    Old_age  
> Offline      -       1
> 
> SMART Error Log Version: 1
> No Errors Logged
> 
> 
> .....................................