[digiKam-users] Catalogues across the LAN

[Mark Otway]

I've only run v6, I've even tried 6.1. I have a fast NAS, and use AC WiFi.
Still see the same issues, even after multiple scans. I may just have to
stick with Lightroom, I suppose.

On Wed, 6 Mar 2019, 22:01 Matthieu, <ermelir at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi there
>
> I encountered a lost of performances issues in a similar configuration.
>
> My analyse highlight 3 reasons:
> - In 5.9, the MySQL query log file shows that we had a lot of duplicates
> queries and MySQL was not able to handle it. It has been improved in the 6
> beta release. I invite you to back up your database (there are some
> database structure upgrades) and upgrade to the 6 release. You should see a
> difference.
> - MySQL default configuration: customize the MySQL configuration helped me
> to earn some hours when browsing my (smaller) collection of files.
> Unfortunately, it depends on your configuration and your files.
> - Network performances: old wifi hot spots can provide poor network
> performances, and using a network share protocol with cache could help you
> to improve your performances. Do you use NFS share rather than CIFS? Which
> kind of Wifi do you have? ac?
>
> Now it takes me only a few minutes to analyse on startup my collection of
> 50k pictures.
>
> Hope it can help.
>
>
> Le ven. 1 mars 2019 à 03:29, Dean Jagels <dplinker at netscape.net> a écrit :
>
>> I've found that my startup time greatly improves if I set DigiKam to
>> *not* scan for new items at startup (settings -> Configure Digikam.. in
>> Miscellaneous).  The side-effect, of course, is that you have to manually
>> re-scan.  My NAS has roughly 25k images.
>>
>> Do you also get the "cannot load" error when you preview an image
>> (right-click and select preview)?  I've never experienced this symptom with
>> my setup.
>>
>> I do have issues if I return to a DigiKam session that has been idle for
>> several hours.  I use Linux automount for my photos mount, and that may
>> have something to do with it; I've never diagnosed it, though, so I am just
>> guessing.  This may be similar to your question about having DigiKam open
>> when you disconnect from your LAN.
>>
>> FWIW, Lightroom was my preferred tool until DigiKam added manual control
>> over thumbnail sort order (thanks, DigiKam developers!).  I'm now using
>> DigiKam most of the time.
>>
>> Dean
>>
>>
>> On 2/26/19 5:12 PM, Mark Otway wrote:
>>
>> I'm having real problems with Digikam running on a catalogue that's
>> sitting on my NAS. It seems like it's just not set up to run this way.
>>
>> I have 400k photos in a NAS share, and have done a full import (into an
>> internal MySQL DB) which took over 2 days. I'd expect, at that point, to be
>> able to browse, search and generally work with the catalogue efficiently
>> when on my home network with direct access to the NAS. However, the startup
>> time is abysmal (a few minutes before I get any GUI at all) and a lot of
>> the time I just get white 'documents' when searching or browsing, rather
>> than thumbnails. If I double-click one of the search results, I get the
>> editor with a message saying Cannot load "". Why would this be? Is it
>> because I've had Digikam open when I've left my LAN (i.e., had my laptop on
>> at work), and so it's 'lost' the connection to the NAS shared folder, and
>> doesn't ever restore it? If so, is there anything I can do to make it more
>> resilient?
>>
>> I've tried Digikam 5.9, 6.0 and 6.1, and with SQLLite, and with internal
>> MySQL, and it just seems awfully slow and unwieldy. I was really hoping
>> that I'd be able to switch to using it as a replacement for Lightroom, but
>> so far the experience has made it unusable. Any tips to make it work in a
>> slick manner?
>>
>>
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