Hello, just now I'm trying f-spot to organize my photo collection. My problem is that I can't manage to import them all: When I point f-spot to the base dir where I organized the photos (in subdirectories by year and month), the program slowly grinds to a halt and stops responding altogether after some 8000 pictures. This is during the pre-import phase before I can actually click the "Import" button. "top" shows 85% percent memory and 50% CPU usage at this point.
When I tried to import my photos in smaller chunks, one directory at a time, I noticed that f-spot keeps both CPU and memory usage as high as 50% long after the import has finished and no other activity is going on. Adding more import directories later creates the same problem as before -- there just doesn't seem to be a way to get any significant number of pictures registered by f-spot. I know that the basic functionality is doable on this system though. Some time ago I toyed with the idea of writing a picture db app myself but didn't get beyond the basic import functions. But this program already took only four minutes to scan the entire directory tree and then import it into a sqlite3 db, with md5 hashing, duplicate checking and lots of Exif information as well within 15 minutes. I think f-spot wastes a lot of time with creating thumbnail images at import. Also it seems to continuously piling up stuff in memory instead of handing it off to the database backend. Is there a GUI-less import function for f-spot? Maybe I'll hack something together with what I've got from my previous efforts. BTW, the rest of f-spot looks pretty good from what I've been able to test. But it is very, very sluggish. This is a 512MB 2GHz AMD machine. Greetings, robert _______________________________________________ f-spot-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list
