[KimDaBa] Rescan for images proposal

[Marco Molteni]

On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 11:52:00 -0400
Robert L Krawitz <rlk at alum.mit.edu> wrote:

>    Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 17:23:23 +0200
>    From: Marco Molteni <molter at tin.it>
> 
>    On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 22:23:00 -0400
>    "Jesper K. Pedersen" <blackie at blackie.dk> wrote:
> 
>    > Interesting idea.
>    > Still with ~6000 images here, it takes less than 2 sec to rescan.
>    > How long does it take for you, and how many images do you have?
> 
>    I did some tests, and I have to say kimdaba's performance is more
>    that acceptable as is with my setup:
> 
>    3212 images, 3.8 GB, 200 directories
>    start kimdaba: 10 sec (from a non KDE environment)
>    build database from scratch: 2 min 30 sec
>    rescan, cache warm or cold no difference, < 2 sec
> 
> How do you know that your cache is cold?  If you tried this right
> after building the database from scratch, the metadata was probably
> already in the cache.  Try it immediately after a reboot.

I know that my cache is cold because I touched my computer
and it was freezing.

Jokes apart, I know that my cache is cold because I rebooted the machine,
otherwise I wouldn't have written "cold".

marco