On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 11:34 PM, KOVÁCS István <[email protected]> wrote: > On 29 December 2015 at 21:04, Roman Lebedev <[email protected]> wrote: >> Oh, second thought, what is the value of "number of background threads"? >> I bet it is set to 1? > > Bingo! If set to 2, the PPA version loads quickly. It was set to one, > and my compiled version lacks printing support: > === build.log === > -- Could NOT find CUPS (missing: CUPS_LIBRARY CUPS_INCLUDE_DIR) > -- Print mode: disabled, please install CUPS dev package > === build.log === > > What's the better option on an old machine (8 years old Core2 Duo, 4 GB RAM): > - roll my own (without printer support) and set 'number of background > threads' to 1 to conserve resources > - go with the PPA and set 'number of background threads' to 2 (if it's > safe with such a low-end machine) We do acknowledge that neither of the cases is optimal, so we will try to fix it some other way in the future.
If you _really_ see that the performance is that much worse with 2 threads, i'd go with self-compile. > > Thanks, > Kofa Roman. ___________________________________________________________________________ darktable developer mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
