digiKam very slow.

[Thomas]

Hi,

What type of database do you use?

Where are images stored? Where is database stored?

Do you store metadata in images or in database?


While I absolutely love Digikam, I experience DK as being rather slow as 
well. It seems to be a bit random for me when it is particularly slow 
and I havent figured out what causes it.


However, this seems to be the best configuration for me:

  * Use SQLite
  * Store SQLite locally on SSDs
  * Store metadata in database - NOT in images

My images are stored on a NAS via SMB. I suspect that might be part of 
the reason for the slowness. However, my collection is prohibitively 
large to store on local SSD.


Btw. there is a debug logging feature you can enable in DK.

Look in Settings.

If you enable this, I believe it logs the timings. Maybe someone on this 
list will know how to say something meaningful from such a trace.


BR

Thomas


On 2023-11-19 18:14, Kolbjørn Stuestøl wrote:
> I've been using digiKam for a couple of weeks to catalog my images. 
> (Inserts keywords to find the images again later).
> My problem is that digiKam works very slowly. Takes up to several 
> minutes to update the images after each change. I have tried several 
> versions of digiKam with the same result. At the moment version 8.0.0.
> Running in Windows 11 with the files on external hard drive. The 
> pictures are 15 - 20 years old taken with a Hewlett Packard digital 
> camera. Each image is about 2 Mb in size.
>
> I have not found anything about this in this or other forums.
>
> Kolbjørn
>
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