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) Leslie --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
