[digiKam-users] Digikam in low latency networks

[Andrew Goodbody]

On 20/02/2019 18:15, woenx wrote:
> Ok, yes, before you tell me, I know Digikam is not meant to be used with
> network storage units.

It is allowable to have the photos stored on a drive connected over a 
network connection. What is very heavily discouraged is using an sqlite 
database over a network connection.

> Anyway, I just wanted to check of anyone else has experienced this. I am out
> of my country for a few months. I have Digikam 6.0 in my computer, with
> local databases (in a m.2 ssd drive) and I can access my picture collection
> remotely (either using sshfs or though a VPN).

But your database is local, so this is OK.

> The internet speed between the two hosts is not great, but not terrible
> either (~50mbps). However, digikam takes ages to scan the collection for new
> files. Something that over a local network should take less than 5 minutes,
> it can take more than 12 hours over internet.
> 
> I realised that it is likely not a problem of the internet speed, but of the
> latency, which is ~100ms in this case.

That's quite a problem.

> Is there any way to circumvent this problem and make it usable over an
> internet connection?

Turn off 'Scan for new files on startup'?

Andrew