* Tobias Ellinghaus <[email protected]> [09-26-17 05:55]:
> Am Montag, 25. September 2017, 18:02:54 CEST schrieb Patrick Shanahan:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > anyway startup only amounts to ~15 seconds on my workstation and isn't a
> > bother, just noticable.  and startup is only slow when I don't have a set
> > active, ie: it is accessing the entire collection of 88k instead of
> > several hundred.
> 
> Just to make sure that I understand correctly: When setting the collect 
> module 
> to show everything you got you end up with a startup time (time until the GUI 
> is shown) of about 15 seconds. When setting collect to show just a few images 
> you get an instant startup?

yes, 2-3 seconds.  my root system is on older 128 gb ssd.
 
> In the cases where dt doesn't come up immediately, what do you see? A GUI 
> just 
> consisting of a grey background without any buttons? No window at all? A GUI 
> that is showing everything but isn't reacting to user interaction?

yes, window or full screen as when I last left, with border and black
inside.  when it does display I see everything, thumbs titles, ...
 
> I am asking as for me darktable always starts in less than a second with 10k 
> images in the collection, collect module set to show all images, and the 
> crawler enabled. At least after the 2nd start, so that all the folder 
> information accessed by the crawler is already cached by the kernel.

that pretty well describes what I experience except that I seldom utilize
the collect module.
 
> > 12 core i7
> > 36 gb
> > nv GT450
> > sata 6

tks
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