0.10.0 too slow to use

[Jasper Mackenzie-2]

Good day all,
  I have been trying to use digikam 0.10.0 to manage the images on my file  
server, connected to my laptop by fast-ethernet, using nfs mounted folders.
But,
  There are a number of things that are making it basically unusable at  
this stage:

On startup digikam setsup inotify watches on all directories. There are  
many, many directories so this takes about five minutes. There seem to be  
less images tahtn I thought, maybee 15-20K.
   Is there some other way. As I suggested in a wish, it would be good if  
it could be set that digikam didnt monitor certain directories.
Rescanning the images takes a few hours....

Thumbnails take forever to load/generate, and when in an album view, even  
a modest sized folder with ~200 images the system slows to a crawl with  
100% cpu use. The machine is getting on, 2.4Ghz P4 with 512M ram.
  If I scroll down, then up again, the thumbnails at the beginning of the  
folder have become grey and take a few minutes to become icons again.
With GQview which is what Ime migrating from, I dont experience high  
cpu/mem overheads to display thumbnails


Crashing... Digikam crashes if multiple images are selected, then right  
clicked on. It crashes sometimes when modifying tags.

Exif Rotation... What a great feature! I love it...
   BUT
  If I modify the exif rotation, then at a later point add comments or  
tags, the exif orientation is reverted somehow.. weird.

There are a few more things that I think would make digikam even more  
fantastic, do I append them here or start a new thread?

Thank you.

Jasper
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[Gilles Caulier-4]

2008/1/21, Jasper Mackenzie <[hidden email]>:

Good day all,
  I have been trying to use digikam 0.10.0 to manage the images on my file
server, connected to my laptop by fast-ethernet, using nfs mounted folders.
But,
  There are a number of things that are making it basically unusable at
this stage:

On startup digikam setsup inotify watches on all directories. There are
many, many directories so this takes about five minutes. There seem to be
less images tahtn I thought, maybee 15-20K.
   Is there some other way. As I suggested in a wish, it would be good if
it could be set that digikam didnt monitor certain directories.
Rescanning the images takes a few hours....

Thumbnails take forever to load/generate, and when in an album view, even
a modest sized folder with ~200 images the system slows to a crawl with
100% cpu use. The machine is getting on, 2.4Ghz P4 with 512M ram.
  If I scroll down, then up again, the thumbnails at the beginning of the
folder have become grey and take a few minutes to become icons again.
With GQview which is what Ime migrating from, I dont experience high
cpu/mem overheads to display thumbnails


Crashing... Digikam crashes if multiple images are selected, then right
clicked on. It crashes sometimes when modifying tags.

Exif Rotation... What a great feature! I love it...
   BUT
  If I modify the exif rotation, then at a later point add comments or
tags, the exif orientation is reverted somehow.. weird.

There are a few more things that I think would make digikam even more
fantastic, do I append them here or start a new thread?

Thank you.

Jasper

Just one word : digiKam  0.10.0 still in alpha stage. It's not yet ready to use in production...

There are a lots of things to test/debug (:=)))

Best

Gilles Caulier

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[Arnd Baecker]

Hi Jasper,

while I cannot comment on your specific issues, I would
like to be very clear (not for you, because you know it, but for
others who might think that 0.10.0 should be the way to go now ... ;-)
about the status about 0.10.0-svn:

  0.10.0-svn is not yet to be used for production!

It is under heavy development and therefore crashes
and more severe breakages are not unlikely.

Note that this is different from the usual development,
i.e. 0.9.4-svn is perfectly useable (even in production ;-)
and usually the svn version has less bugs than the last released
version (though it may contain less tested new features).

For the upcoming digikam 0.10 a lot of the internals
are changing completely, in particular the
database has changed a lot!
For the roadmap see:
  http://www.digikam.org/?q=about/releaseplan

I will leave it to Gilles and Marcel to comment
on your specific questions, as I do not use 0.10 ...

Best, Arnd


On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Jasper Mackenzie wrote:

> Good day all,
>   I have been trying to use digikam 0.10.0 to manage the images on my file
> server, connected to my laptop by fast-ethernet, using nfs mounted folders.
> But,
>   There are a number of things that are making it basically unusable at
> this stage:
>
> On startup digikam setsup inotify watches on all directories. There are
> many, many directories so this takes about five minutes. There seem to be
> less images tahtn I thought, maybee 15-20K.
>    Is there some other way. As I suggested in a wish, it would be good if
> it could be set that digikam didnt monitor certain directories.
> Rescanning the images takes a few hours....
>
> Thumbnails take forever to load/generate, and when in an album view, even
> a modest sized folder with ~200 images the system slows to a crawl with
> 100% cpu use. The machine is getting on, 2.4Ghz P4 with 512M ram.
>   If I scroll down, then up again, the thumbnails at the beginning of the
> folder have become grey and take a few minutes to become icons again.
> With GQview which is what Ime migrating from, I dont experience high
> cpu/mem overheads to display thumbnails
>
>
> Crashing... Digikam crashes if multiple images are selected, then right
> clicked on. It crashes sometimes when modifying tags.
>
> Exif Rotation... What a great feature! I love it...
>    BUT
>   If I modify the exif rotation, then at a later point add comments or
> tags, the exif orientation is reverted somehow.. weird.
>
> There are a few more things that I think would make digikam even more
> fantastic, do I append them here or start a new thread?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Jasper
> _______________________________________________
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>

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