I am using digiKam with mariadb under Fedora 34.
My collection has about 500K photos on a btrfs filesystem.
When digiKam starts, the find new items takes very long time to run, even there are no changes are made.
Apart from disable find new on startup, what can be done to speed up the find new process? Will digiKam use the fold modify time to skip unmodified folders?
@SampsonF is it possible that the find new process is bottle necked by your hard drive speed, I think that is my limitation. Also another factor is to have your database on an ssd which will also help. Another consideration for overall speed improvement would be to migrate your database over to MariaDB if you have not already done so.
I have btrfs running in raid 1 with my database on ssd and have found an increase in overall performance of digikam (not necessarily find new items speed however) , although still testing it out. I followed this tutuorial here.
hope that helps.
digiKam-7.4.0 (currently git/master) we significantly accelerate the scan for new items.