Export concerns.....change settings?

Software darktable
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Howdy folks…I’ve noticed a marked increase in my export times since installing DT 5.0. At first I thought little of it, but over the last few days I’ve noticed that regardless of how much I process my images (when compared to what I typically do), the export times take at least 5-10 times (approximately) longer than they used to.
Now, keep in mind that I still don’t know much about the export settings in darktable…so is there any settings that I could change to speed it up?
Maybe I screwed up a file path when I did the install? I installed the Windows release (stable 5.0) and the only thing I changed in the install process was naming the install path as “DRIVE”:/Program Files:/darktable2 as opposed to just “darktable” as I was unsure if the install would overwrite my previous version or not.
Is there any way to log what my performance is when exporting in case that’s needed?

PC is Windows based.

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You can start darktable from the terminal like darktable -d common and run your exports. I believe the log goes into your documents folder.

Are you using openCL at all?

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I’m not sure exactly what log categories -d common includes, but you can add -d perf -d opencl as well, just to make sure performance and OpenCL (GPU acceleration) data is logged.

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I am using OpenCl…setings are at “Regular”.

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Thanks, I’ll give this a shot later today and post up the results.