Re: amount of photos

[Warren Baird <photogeekmtl gmail com>]

Lorenzo Milesi wrote:
> a question for everyone who replied (but especially for you using a laptop):
> where do you store all those GB of pictures?
> Do you have only one F-spot db?

I have a 20gb partition on my laptop that stores about 6k or 7k photos 
as a single f-spot db.

I also keep a couple of separate f-spot db's on an external USB drive 
for a couple of different projects I've worked on.  They probably both 
also have around 5k photos in them.

I've found that generally performance is quite good on both the internal 
and external drives.  However, occasionally I see f-spot's memory usage 
spike to over 1gb and performance drops like a rock.   I'm still trying 
to narrow down exactly what triggers this.

Warren