On Sa, 2012-12-08 at 20:58 +0100, Ulrich Pegelow wrote: > Am 08.12.2012 19:26, schrieb Eildert Groeneveld: > > Just to add: darktable died (actually the laptop did (maybe got too > > hot?)) > > > > So I had to restart the import again. Diligently, DT started right from > > the beginning again, 34754 images all over again... at the same time > > reindexing some 12000 images. > > > > I wonder if it will go through this time. Likely to take more than > > 15hours. > > > > no way to sped up things? > > That's certainly a special use case :)
is this really so? I am sure that there are lot of much bigger collections out there. > > I wonder if we should have an option to load images into library > *without* regenerating thumbs. Because that's what makes things slow. > > In the end only relatively few thumbs from such a huge collection will > survive in mipmap cache. > > The cache will typically be too small to keep a huge portion of them. So > we keep the cpu/gpu busy generating thumbs which are shortly after > thrown out from the cache again. disconnecting the import from the thumbnail operation seems useful; this would likely also a separate thumbnail recr. step which could then get started at some convenient time. Eildert > > Ulrich > > > > > greetings > > > > Eildert > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial > Remotely access PCs and mobile devices and provide instant support > Improve your efficiency, and focus on delivering more value-add services > Discover what IT Professionals Know. Rescue delivers > http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein_12329d2d > _______________________________________________ > Darktable-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial Remotely access PCs and mobile devices and provide instant support Improve your efficiency, and focus on delivering more value-add services Discover what IT Professionals Know. Rescue delivers http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein_12329d2d _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
