Digikam uses approx 90% of my CPU.

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Digikam uses approx 90% of my CPU.

C. Brouerius van Nidek
Having had some problems with my Photo collection I asked around about a
good photo program to sort out the disorganized bunch.
Digikam was the choice. Have now installed the version 2.4.1 and am
planning to start using it.

After start-up of DigiKam there is some "scanning collection" done. The
progress bar never exceeds the 6%. Sometimes 0, 1 or 2%. Working through
the handbook but have not come up with the progress bar.
Thumbnails are shown as empty squares. Normal size pictures are possible.

Biggest problem though is the CPU use. The complete info is:

Process status: sleeping. Process waiting for something to happen.
User CPU usage 89%
System CPU usage 0%
Number of treads 7

When I quit Digikam, the program is still there waiting although the
desktop is empty. I have to kill digikan in order to get my CPU usage
back to normal.
What could cause this behavior.

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Re: Digikam uses approx 90% of my CPU.

jdd@dodin.org
Le 27/12/2011 11:37, C. Brouerius van Nidek a écrit :

> What could cause this behavior.
>
the main thing to understand for digikam use is that the photo folders
are simply system folders, browsable with any explorer.

Digikam do not scan the entire drive in search of images like other
applications do.

that said, since 2.? digikam have special features (version control,
xml sidecar) that makes me feel that using both explorer (dolphin in
my case) and digikam is more difficult. For example, digikam shows
only the images, when dolphin shows xml sidecar and all the image
versions.

I don't know yet how to manage this

jdd

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