Re: [trinity-users] digikam is trying to kill me and my computer

said J Leslie Turriff: | On 2019-06-19 16:05:41 dep wrote: | > greets, folks . . . | > | > for more than a decade i've gone happily along, making pictures for a | > living, sorting them with a gnome application called gthumb (which | > meshes nicely with the gimp) and being generally happy. then the gnome | > people did what gnome people do: they improved gthumb to the point | > where it's utterly useless. they removed menus and scrollbars and | > committed other atrocities. | > | > so i thought i'd bite the bullet and try digikam, which is in many | > respects too much, just too much. it tries to do things that i do not | > want done. it insists on running a full inventory of all my pictures | > all the time -- gthumb was good about not doing this until it was | > asked to -- and generally behaves as if i'm a 14-year-old who wants to | > keep track of his million selfies. grrr. | > | > but i can live with that and i feel confident that after spending some | > time with it i can turn off much of the stuff i don't like and make it | > into something potentially more useful than gthumb was when it was | > useful, about one major version ago. but there's a problem: when i use | > digikam-trinity (0.9.6) within a few minutes i can hear my computer's | > fans screaming and when i run top i see that it's consuming more than | > 100 percent. | > | > any ideas how i can fix this or at least troubleshoot it? | > | > tia. | | This isn't a fix for the problem itself, but Linux Format Magazine | #LXF250 reviewed a product called Ananicy, which provides a friendly way | to monitor and adjust the nicenesses of the processes running on a | machine. I found it helpful. (http://bit.ly.lxf250ananicy) alas, i get a "server not found" at that url. do you have a full url? as to the initial problem, i can tell (from having watched top) that as soon as digikam-trinity is asked to do anything at all -- display a picture, open an external program -- it jumps to 100 percent or above, unless the external application is ShowFoto, in which case *each* of them is at 100 percent. -- dep Some pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album