Re: [gthumb-list] Extremely slow loading of thumbnails

[Paolo Bacchilega <paolo bacchilega libero it>]

Il 22/03/2012 01:55, Greg Mansfield ha scritto:
> I'm using gThumb 2.90.1 built today from the git repository on Fedora 16.
>
> I started gThumb at a directory of 600 JPG images about 6Mb each (total
> size 3.3Gb). After 2-1/4 hour of constant disk activity and over 70%
> CPU, it was still going strong and had consumed about 1.5Gb of ram and
> was growing. Only about 1/2 of the thumbnails were displayed. I gave up
> and shut it down.
>
> My machine has a 3GHz Phenom II X4, 8Gb RAM, 74GB Raptor system drive,
> 640Gb data drive and a 2Gb SSD. The thumbnails for all 600 images are
> cached in the SSD.
>
> gqview the predecessor of gThumb displayed all the thumbnails in less
> than 10 seconds.
>
> I put together a 320 line test program using GTK+ functions to read and
> display thumbnails. It took about 5 seconds to display all 600 thumbnails.
>
> It seems to me that there is something seriously amiss.

I cannot reproduce the problem, can you post the last part of the 
'configure' output after the 'Configuration:' line?

- Paolo