First I would install a distro targeted at low end machines. Something that does not use 90% of the memory just to di fancy animations. Maybe you can already find a lightweight image viewer there.
Check the memory usage and disable *everything* you do not need (printer, desktop background, fancy screensaver, applets, etc.). Maybe the system is swapping badly. If xnviewmp works fine why not just using it? You may later export only the best ones to a folder and, at home, import from there into DT. You will have to classify this again but I do not expect many of these. Otherwise you may also export from xnviewmp to five different folders according to the rating, import each one into DT, mass-assign the corresponding rating to all the images from each folder, and then move all the files into a new folder and import this into DT. For DT, you can try "bilinear" demosaic and interpolator in the "core options" (I think these are the fastest ones, not sure if they are used in the light table, but maybe you'll do some zoom-in sometimes). There is also an "high quality thum processing" that you can try to disable. But honestly I would prefer xnviewmp to a badly configured DT, at least it will show things as they are supposed to be. Lorenzo 2018-03-20 20:01 GMT+01:00 <darkta...@911networks.com>: > DT 2.4.1 > > I'll be going on vacation with a very low, low end, old laptop. DT > runs like a dog on it. It's very bad. > > I'll be going through my images while away. Usually, I use xnviewmp > which runs ok on this old laptop. > > What's a good way of rating, tagging and culling while away (so I > don't have to do it twice) > > -- > sknahT > > vyS > ____________________________________________________________ > ________________ > darktable user mailing list > to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscribe@ > lists.darktable.org > > ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
