Good morning, Are you using a very slow computer ? I imported ca. 45000 pictures in darktable last week and it took less than 8 hours to import and index everything. I cannot be more precise as I started the import before going to work, and it was finished when I came back home. This was done with an intel core 2 duo @ 3GHz with 2 Go of RAM. The pictures were on an E-SATA external hard drive. I did not copy the files while importing.
Hope this helps, Xavier. Le 9 déc. 2012 à 10:37, Eildert Groeneveld <[email protected]> a écrit : > Good Morning Everyone, > just a quick update on the import: > darktable has meanwhile accummulated 1037:21 min that's more than > 16hours and has thus far processed about 3/4 of the files. > > not very practical..... > > > Eildert > > > > On Sa, 2012-12-08 at 21:42 +0100, Eildert Groeneveld wrote: >> 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 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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
