Version: 0.9.2 (using KDE KDE 3.5.7) Installed from: Debian testing/unstable Packages OS: Linux Starting up digikam takes several minutes on my machine. (Debian testing) this has happened with several digikam versions, currently debian package 0.9.2-3. One detail to mention: I am storing the photos on an NFS mount on a file server. Accessing it over Wifi from my laptop with digikam Seems like all database accesses are slow. Currently deleting an album out of the database, again several minutes. Regards, Bert
See http://www.digikam.org/?q=node/219 and http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137694 http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129437 http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122516 and also http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134594 http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146865
This report is invalid. digiKam do not support yet remote repositories. There are already some reports about this subject, and we have planed to do it... Gilles Caulier
Bert, I already tried the same setting at home with a slow wifi link (802.11b). It's not very fast to start and display pictures, but this is only because of the network speed. Starting digikam with 7000 photos takes around 2 minutes... Try to mount the file server with "nolock" option to see if it helps. Note: as Gilles wrote, there's no support and no warranty with digikam (ie sqlite3) on network file system. Use at your own risks... I recommand you to backup your digikam database very frequently!
Hello Giles, Fabian Thank you for your mail. I'm sorry to hear NFS is not supported by digikam/sqlite. What other options for network storage do you recommend? Would samba smb be a better choice? (I had that a long time ago, but samba mounts didn't work well with laptop-suspend back then.) Giles: What do you mean with "planned to do it". Do you have some specific info on what I can be looking forward to? Fabian: my link is 802.11g. I do not really have problems with the speed while watching/working on the pictures. Only the database access is terribly slow. (for reference: I have about 8000 photos now) Opening is definitely minutes of work, but also deleting an album is painful. I will try the nolock option, but I remember vaguely that openoffice had trouble with that. Finally: Yes, I backup daily with dirvish, but actually I find rebuilding the entire database not even that slow compared to the above mentioned problems;-) Regards, Bert 16 Jul 2007 09:14:25 -0000, Fabien <fabien.ubuntu@gmail.com>: [bugs.kde.org quoted mail]
>Thank you for your mail. I'm sorry to hear NFS is not supported by >digikam/sqlite. This is not a problem with digiKam, but sqlite only. >Gilles: What do you mean with "planned to do it". ==> KDE4 digiKam port is under way. It's planed to do it with this version. >Do you have some >specific info on what I can be looking forward to? Yes. Look here : http://www.digikam.org/?q=node/219 Gilles Caulier