I’m currently running Darktable 2.0.5 on two systems. One is a Linux Mint 18 box with an 5930K, 32GB of RAM and GTX 970. The other is a new MacBook Pro retina I recently picked up with the mobile 2.8Ghz i7, 16GB of RAM and R9 M370X/Iris Pro. I’ve have the default core settings on both as far as memory and threads go. I’ve fed about 40K images to it on both machines (I keep my files synced with rsync over the network) and the Linux box absolutely flies. The lighttable module is like butter as they say. Adjustments in are quick too.
However on the Mac it’s become rather slow. Every once in a while I’ll blow away my .config/darktable/library.db file and let it rebuild overnight. This seems to help for a short time but then things just get bogged down again eventually. The library.db files on each machine are stored on SSDs. It’s always been slightly slower on my Macs but I used to attribute it to having some older Mac hardware. Now with the new system it’s not a mcuh faster. I’ve tried enabling/disabling OpenCL and that doesn’t make much difference either way. Increasing some of the memory available for thumbnail caching and restarting the program doesn’t seem to make much difference either way so I’ve put it back to the standard 500MBl. Adjustments get pretty slow too. Any tips on something to look for or a way to speed it up on OS X? As far as I can tell the settings between the two systems are identical and mostly default. I do usually set it to apply camera specific base curves but that’s really the only setting I’ve messed with outside of metadata. Thanks! Leander____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to [email protected]
