[svlug] Photo sorting software

[Karen Shaeffer]

On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 04:19:03PM -0700, Joe Buck wrote:
> 
> I don't know if they fixed it, but F-Spot had terrible performance
> problems when trying to import large numbers of pictures, when I tried it
> a while back, including trying to make new copies and using so much memory
> that it paged heavily (I tried to import my collection of 2000 or so
> images, taken with a 2Mpixel camera).  This was at least a year ago and
> maybe things have improved since then, though.

Hi Joe,

So, you are running an application (F-Spot) on a host system (presumably)
running linux. And your data (the photos) exceeds the physical ram
available on the host platform -- so the kernel starts paging.

How much ram was on the host system? Not that I am an advocate for F-Spot,
but it may just be you overwhelmed the kernel page management capabilities
and any application would be performing very poorly under these
circumstances.

Thanks,
Karen
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 Karen Shaeffer
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 shaeffer at neuralscape.com  http://www.neuralscape.com