[digiKam-users] DK 7.4 - Experience with using MariaDB on NAS and local thumbnails

[Maik Qualmann]

Did you consider that when you switch from a network thumbnail database to a 
local one, the local database is initially empty? Either the thumbnails are 
created on the fly when looking at albums, which of course is slow the first 
time. Or create all thumbnails with the maintenance tool, which can take a few 
hours.

Maik

Am Montag, 10. Januar 2022, 13:51:31 CET schrieb daj omu:
> Hi,
> 
> I was really looking forward to DK 7.4 so that I could use MariaDB on a NAS
> while keeping the thumb-nail DB locally. Using only a wireless connection I
> can say that it did not work as expected.
> I actually believed that scrolling a folder with many thumbnails would be
> without hassle as long at the thumbnails were store on a local DB, but alas
> it is very slow. I had a folder with about 300 photos and scrolling were
> extremely slow and the thumbnails did not keep up with my "slow" scrolling.
> I changed back to storing all DB´ locally and the problem disappeared. I
> just tested on a folder with more than 1300 photos and it was extremely
> fast. All thumbnails appeared in an instant.
> 
> dajomu