Very slow I/O is a potential sign of a nearby harddisk failure. Please check the SMART state of the disk and ensure your backups are up-to-date. You also can try to run badblocks on the drive.
Oh, one other potential cause: Is your disk very full/fragmented? Full disks are prone to fragmentation and can lead to an extreme slowdown. Regards, Markus Am 13.08.2014 um 19:46 schrieb Ochal Christophe: > > On 08/13/2014 01:44 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote: >> I shoot high school and club soccer and thought I had a lot but 175mb >> is small compared to your 367mb. But I see no adverse conditions when >> adding another session of 500-1k shots. Perhaps you are fighting >> hardware limitations, I am using an i7 w/36gb. I do see a 1-2 minute >> delay of dt while it does it's import and assignment of session tags >> but I am able to invoke 2 or 3 more imports while the first is >> processing. It just extends the heavy load on dt for a longer time. >> gud luk, > > I've been doing some tests and it seems for some weird reason there's an > IO issue when loading the database file, I've tested copying the file > through the terminal after a cold boot and it took over 2 minutes to > copy the file (which is ridiculously much) but when I started darktable > it suddenly gave me this feedback on the terminal: > > [init] moving database into new XDG directory structure > > No idea what this means nor do I have any clue why the IO is so low (an > i7 with 16GB should be faster than this) and subsequent read operations > are of course fast because it's cached. > > No idea how to troubleshoot this :( > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Darktable-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
