[digiKam-users] Network Library too slow and not reconnect

[Martin Althoff]

Let me chip in my two cents worth as a long term MacBookPro owner (current one 5 years
old, running 10.14.6), though I have no solution to offer.

For a long time (couple of years, various versions of OSX/MacOS) I was permanently
struggling with poor network performance. Wifi was worse then cable based. Ping values
were fine. I was only looking within my GB home network. Occasionally by factor 2 or 3
below Windows/Linux. Searching around I saw others have the same problem, followed tips
(disable anything on the Mac that's in the network path: firewalls etc), without much
achieved. Best answer I found: OSX/MacOS has a problematic network handling. Just as NFS
is poor. All not a focus of Apple. This is why I guess you are looking at more of an Apple
then DK problem.

With Mojave (10.14) things subjectively got a bit better, though I have kind of given up
on it. Copying a 5GB file to an NFS connected share through WiFi now actually works,
before (from when I don't know) it usually didn't (speed and disconnects).  Most of my
work takes place on Linux by now. New hassles, but others are gone. 

Just a thought: How about keeping two synchronized copies of your images? 300G is not so
much. Digikam works on a local copy. Obviously the remote copy has to be the absolute
master copy if that is needed.

Martin


On Wed, 2020-04-22 at 21:58 -0300, Alex - Família Turista wrote:
> I’ll do that. Have done before, it’s very easy. 
> I just have to have some time.  
> 
> Yesterday I decided to empty my DK database and config and start from zero. 
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> On the initial config screen I setup my collection and I’d started scanning. It was quite fast. A small dialog showing the path currently being scanned. Took about 3 hours max (over Wi-Fi).  I thought the problem was fixed but after this initial scam, the interface was shown and the process of finding new items started from 0% and seemed frozen again. 
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