https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=426086
Bug ID: 426086 Summary: Tiff file reading extremely slow Product: digikam Version: 7.1.0 Platform: Other OS: Microsoft Windows Status: REPORTED Severity: minor Priority: NOR Component: Plugin-FilesIO-TIFF Assignee: digikam-bugs-n...@kde.org Reporter: k...@binkmail.com Target Milestone: --- SUMMARY Using current Win64 weekly. Observed while rebuilding face thumbnails in background. Assume it is a general tiff reading problem. Tiff files were saved from photoshop cc 21.2. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Maintenance clean thumbnails which wipes face thumbnails. 2. View faces to trigger thumbnail rebuild. 3. Observe disk usage OBSERVED RESULT Tiff files are read at about 4MB/s with almost 100% disk active time. Panasonic RAW files (for example) on the same drive are read at about 60MB/s with about 12% disk active time. Using sysinternals diskmon I noted that the tiff files were being read in 64k blocks backwards, that is the read sector numbers got lower. RAW files were read in 256k blocks with increasing sector numbers. I assume the terrible performance is due to lack of OS and/or drive read ahead caching because digikam is reading behind - lol. The tiff files are about 450MB. Don't know if digiKam needs to read the whole file if so it would take nearly 2 minutes each. EXPECTED RESULT Tiff reading not to be so slow. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Windows: 10 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Think this might be some specific tiff file format? The files were probably initially created with DxO Photolab then edited and saved in photoshop. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.