Could it be that I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 and DT is using an older
library?  Is everyone else that uses Ubuntu running a more recent
version?
-Scott

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 9:05 PM, Scott <spectre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> With DT full screen, If I set the lighttable zoom to show 5 images
> across, it is rather slow (as previously mentioned).  If I leave it at
> that zoom level but re-size the darktable window within the window
> manager (so the images are smaller, but still 5 images across and same
> number of images shown in DT as before), the performance greatly
> improves.  I assume this is due to the same reason that the
> performance improves in full screen by zooming out.
>
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 8:31 PM, Scott <spectre...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I ran 'darktable -d perf -d lighttable' to get the lighttable output
>> and sent it to a text file, opened up darktable and moved the cursor
>> around a bit, parsed the file to grab the lines with the total time,
>> '[lighttable] expose took #.#### sec', and output the maximum and mean
>> times listed.  Here are some results.
>>
>> 1.  54 pictures, all default settings -> max 0.14, average 0.07
>> 2.  Same library, turn off color managed thumbnails -> max 0.12, average 
>> 0.033
>> 3.  Same library, turn on color managed thumbnails, run
>> 'darktable-generate-cache -m 7' -> max 0.15, average 0.09
>> 4.  Reset darktable (remove ~/.cache/darktable and
>> ~/.config/darktable), import just 5 pictures, then run the same test
>> -> max 0.04, average 0.01
>>
>> It feels like the timing with the first tests is greater than 0.14
>> seconds, but my feeling is probably wrong.  Regardless, it is *very*
>> noticeable and the test does support my observations that turning off
>> color managed thumbnails improves the response a little bit, but not
>> drastically and that the response time is great with just 5 pictures
>> instead of ~50 pictures.
>>
>> I also tried playing with the option 'memory in megabytes to use for
>> the thumbnail cache' and the two memories related to tiling, but
>> neither seemed to have any noticeable effect.
>>
>> Are there any other tests I can do to help debug this?  Darktable is
>> great, but it is rather frustrating to use like this.
>>
>> -Scott
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 11:32 PM, johannes hanika <hana...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> heya,
>>>
>>> sounds worrying, i'd like to get to the bottom of this.
>>>
>>> i guess the long term best solution would be to instruct cairo to only
>>> expose whatever thumbnails are changed when moving around with the
>>> mouse (but i tried quickly, it's not trivial to do and still work with
>>> all features).
>>>
>>> darktable -d perf -d lighttable
>>>
>>> is what you want to use to get timings for lighttable btw.
>>>
>>> -jo
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 5:45 PM, Scott <spectre...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hello all,
>>>>
>>>> I'm having an issue since upgrading to Darktable 2.0 (Pascal's PPA).
>>>> When in lighttable, if I just move my cursor around it takes ~1/3
>>>> second before the thumbnail under the cursor is highlighted and the
>>>> "image information" updates to it.  Searching the bug tracker and
>>>> archives show that I'm not the only one with this issue, but I haven't
>>>> seen any fixes for it.  A couple references:
>>>> http://redmine.darktable.org/issues/10764
>>>> http://sourceforge.net/p/darktable/mailman/message/34654461/
>>>>
>>>> I have:
>>>> - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
>>>> - 16 GB of RAM
>>>> - GeForce GTX 650 Ti BOOST (proprietary drivers, )
>>>> - Intel Core i5-3570K (4 cores @ 3.40Ghz)
>>>> - All photos in my library are Canon CR2
>>>> - 27" monitor (Dell U2713HM) is calibrated using dipcalGUI and set to
>>>> 2560x1440 resolution
>>>>
>>>> The first few things I've tried:
>>>> - Running darktable-generate-cache
>>>> - Running with '-d perf' (but it doesn't print anything when I simply
>>>> move the mouse around the screen)
>>>> - Changing the number of background threads
>>>> - Running with and without OpenCL
>>>> - Turning off color managed cache (this gave a slight improvement, but
>>>> still much slower than DT 1.6.9)
>>>>
>>>> I then deleted ~/.cache/darktable and  ~/.config/darktable, and
>>>> imported only 5 pictures and the response time seemed very quick.  I
>>>> then added a folder (50 images) and the response time lagged again.  I
>>>> also noticed that it seems to depend on how zoomed in the images are
>>>> in lighttable.  If I zoom out so the thumbnails are very small, then
>>>> the response time is good.  As I zoom the thumbnails larger, this
>>>> response time gets worse and worse.  5 images across the screen seems
>>>> to be the worst, and then as I zoom in even closer it gets slightly
>>>> better.
>>>>
>>>> I then imported some more pictures so that I have nearly 200 in the
>>>> database/cache.  Now even when lighttable is zoomed as as far as
>>>> possible, the response time is very slow.
>>>>
>>>> Possible output request:
>>>> $ ldd `which darktable` | grep gomp
>>>> libgomp.so.1 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgomp.so.1 (0x00007fa6da138000)
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone have any other recommendations to try?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Scott
>>>>
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