Help requested - Digikam running really slow

Some basic info

2gb Ram
2.80ghz duel core processor
Ubuntu 9.10
Digikam 1.0.0 Beta 6
55,000 image files in folders arranged by date taken

I have the database on the system volume, the files are on an external hard drive.

I am trying to tag my image files and it takes a long time to navigate through the application. Every action seems to take for ever to complete, even scrolling in the thumbnail window is slow.

My question is, where can I start to trouble shoot this? Keep in mind I am new to linux, long time windows user.

Is there some monitoring I can put on there or an output I can look at? Is there things I can diable to make it quicker?

any help would be appreciated

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On Sunday 15 November 2009 15:13:56 Adam wrote:
> Is there some monitoring I can put on there or an output I can look at? Is
>  there things I can diable to make it quicker?
>

You can always start digikam from a terminal ;) (run konsole and type
"digikam")

Maybe there are some messages there...

Cheers,

Damnshock
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[Julien Narboux]

Marc Deop i Argemí a écrit :

> On Sunday 15 November 2009 15:13:56 Adam wrote:
>  
>> Is there some monitoring I can put on there or an output I can look at? Is
>>  there things I can diable to make it quicker?
>>
>>    
>
> You can always start digikam from a terminal ;) (run konsole and type
> "digikam")
>
> Maybe there are some messages there...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Damnshock
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>  

Hi,

You can use the command "top" to check if digikam process is using 100%
of cpu time or not.
We may also check if you get better results with pictures on an internal
hard disk, just to see if the problem comes from usb connection.

cheers,

Julien
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[Adam Petty]

I copied the files to an internal drive and the app did seem to run a log faster. Thanx for the help

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Subject: Re: [Digikam-users] Help requested - Digikam running really slow

Marc Deop i Argemí a écrit :

> On Sunday 15 November 2009 15:13:56 Adam wrote:
> 
>> Is there some monitoring I can put on there or an output I can look at? Is
>>  there things I can diable to make it quicker?
>>
>>   
>
> You can always start digikam from a terminal ;) (run konsole and type
> "digikam")
>
> Maybe there are some messages there...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Damnshock
> _______________________________________________
> Digikam-users mailing list
> [hidden email]
> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/digikam-users
> 

Hi,

You can use the command "top" to check if digikam process is using 100%
of cpu time or not.
We may also check if you get better results with pictures on an internal
hard disk, just to see if the problem comes from usb connection.

cheers,

Julien
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