You will understand better if you run darktable as darktable -d cache from the command line. It will tell you how many free slots you have in the cache. and where is the limit. You can change the amount of free slots by doing two things: the most important one is enabling thumbnail compression in the preferences, the second one is increasing the amount of cache in memory in the core options tab. Take into account that the amount of cache will be also mapped to the RAM, so you will have that missing.
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 10:40 PM, Warren Baird <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm seeing what I consider somewhat strange behaviour around thumbnails. > > I have a couple of fairly big collections I spend a lot of time browsing > through when working on my art - the biggest is almost 8000 images. When I > start darktable, *some* of these images will have thumbnails that show up > instantly - but a lot of them will start out as just grey boxes that fill in > over time --- seems to take about 0.2 seconds per image - I normally have a > grid of about 150 images visible (on a 30" monitor), and it takes about 30s > for all of the thumbnails to populate... > > I could live with the 0.2 seconds per thumbnail if it was just once per > image - but it isn't... If I browse for a bit and then stop and restart > darktable, most of the images will again show up without a thumbnail and > I'll be back to waiting 0.2 seconds per image... > > I don't understand why some thumbs show up instantly after a restart, but > the majority have this delay... > > This makes quickly browsing through a large collection very painful... > > Is there anything I can do to get the thumbs to be saved from session to > session, so they'll all load quickly? > > Thanks!! > > Warren > > -- > Warren Baird - Photographer and Digital Artist > http://www.synergisticimages.ca > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. > Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics > Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb > _______________________________________________ > Darktable-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users > -- José Carlos García Sogo [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_feb _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
