I have used nothing but the Ctrl+T method for some time (I experience lags of about 10 seconds between typing a tag name into the module and its actual appearance in the text box).
For a while, I could get the Ctrl+T tagging to go faster by keeping the name of a non-existent tag (e.g., "abcdefg") in the module text box, but now even that does not work very well. -- August Schwerdfeger aug...@schwerdfeger.name On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 3:39 AM, Tobias Ellinghaus <m...@houz.org> wrote: > Am Samstag, 29. Juli 2017, 22:14:09 CEST schrieb August Schwerdfeger: > > Darktable 1.4.2, 1.6.9, 2.0.7, and 2.2.4, on Fedora, CentOS, and OS X. > > > > There is something seriously wrong with Darktable's tagging module. > > > > As I have used successive versions of Darktable with databases containing > > an increasing number of tags, the tagging module has gradually become so > > slow in its operation as to be essentially unusable. > > > > For example, recently, on a database containing ~2500 tags, I attempted > to > > attach a single tag to ~250 images. This operation took approximately > three > > minutes, during which time Darktable was unresponsive and consistently > used > > about 100% of two cores. > > That sounds bad. How did you tag the images? By selecting the tag in the > tagging module and clicking the "attach" button, or using the quick tag > feature (ctrl-t, type, enter)? Could you please try the latter if you > didn't > do so before and tell me if that's faster? > > > By way of comparison, I accessed a copy of the database file directly and > > used an INSERT INTO command to apply the same tag to the same images. > This > > took about 20ms. > > > > Since actually attaching the tag is clearly not taking six minutes of > > processor time, what else is the tagging module doing that could possibly > > be causing these delays (and, what is more to the point, how do I work > > around it so I can actually use the thing again)? > > > > -- > > August Schwerdfeger > > aug...@schwerdfeger.name > > Tobias ___________________________________________________________________________ darktable developer mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-dev+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
