On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 3:23 AM, Robert Krawitz <[email protected]> wrote: > I've just switched to darktable from rawtherapee, and have to say that > I'm very pleased. It's very easy to create bundles of settings that > work well, and the output quality is very good. I do have a lot more > to learn, though! > > But one part of my workflow, related to my penchant for creating > panoramas, is causing problems. For reference, my workflow is: > > 1) Import images from my memory card(s) with a custom script that > preserves the directory structure from the card. > > 2) Slurp them into KPhotoAlbum. > > 3) Select the images *and panorama sequences* that I want to keep. > Each panorama sequence is symlinked into a separate directory; the > singletons are symlinked into an additional directory. > > 4) In darktable, I process the "singleton" directory and each pano > sequence as a separate collection. As I finish work on each > directory, I export it and move on to the next. > > I then process all of the pano sequences with hugin. > > The problem here is that each time I export a collection darktable > immediately starts work on it. I have darktable set to use 4 threads; > it appears that when I export multiple collections, the actual number > of threads used is 4 per collection (my system is a Core i7 first > generation, with 16 GB RAM), which results in CPU overconsumption. > > Using a more or less up to date (within the past few weeks, at any > rate) git repo, I can't find any setting to force proper queuing > behavior, as hugin does (when I'm done building a panorama and click > the Stitch button in hugin, it enqueues the job, processing them > consecutively. > > Am I missing something, or does anyone have any better ideas how to do > this? That's right, if you do several exports at a single time, they will be done in *parallel*. So keeping in mind [1], i would say the solution is to only export one thing at a time.
[1]: https://redmine.darktable.org/issues/9181 > -- > Robert Krawitz <[email protected]> Roman. > *** MIT Engineers A Proud Tradition http://mitathletics.com *** > Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- http://ProgFree.org > Project lead for Gutenprint -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net > > "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." > --Eric Crampton > ____________________________________________________________________________ > darktable user mailing list > to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected] > ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
