Hi, I would like to challenge your assumption that this is database related. It more sounds like darktable is busy generating thumbnails for a huge number of images in your collection.
You could test by starting with '-d perf' and see if a lot of pixelpipe processing takes place while you are in lighttable mode. Ulrich Am 23.05.2014 06:15, schrieb Mika Mantere: > I've been dabbling with DT (among others) in my quest to establish a > workflow on linux (Ubuntu) and I like DT. Darkroom seems very promising > for me as I've been messing around with a few images. > > So I decided to try it further and imported around 40K images (mostly > nef, but psd, tif and jpg too) and then the problems started. All of a > sudden it now takes many minutes to start DT. Then it goes from DT to > DR immediately, but going back from DR to DT again takes many minutes. > > I found out that large dbs had been a problem in DT,but it was > supposedly fixed in 1.4. > > Looking at tags I noticed that when importing tifs and jpgs, DT adds > tags to every image, namely a tag for date, time and copyright info each > and then one more like 'darktable|format|tif'. This does not happen > with nefs. This catalog used about 300 keywords in a hierarchy, but DT's > behavior added thousands of tags and I suspect it might have something > to do with the slowdown of DT. > > Has anyone similar problems? > > Thanks, > Mika > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE Instantly run your Selenium tests across 300+ browser/OS combos. Get unparalleled scalability from the best Selenium testing platform available Simple to use. Nothing to install. Get started now for free." http://p.sf.net/sfu/SauceLabs _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
