deanable Posted April 20, 2015 Report Share Posted April 20, 2015 Hi Guys I am interested to see if other users have pushed the limits of Daminion Server. We have recently gone over the 1 000 000 records mark and I have not experienced any issues with performance. Share your Daminion catalog size screenshot and let's see the winner!!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exterminador Posted April 22, 2015 Report Share Posted April 22, 2015 Hey! I have a catalog also handling more than 1M files. I've had some performance issues in the past but that has improved over time with some tweaking and some improvements made by the Daminion team I think what made the difference at some point was to separate database and thumbnail files in different drives, my current setup: Windows 8.1 Pro Core i7 3770S 3.1GHz 4 GB RAM Kingston SSDNow V Series 128GB for OS and thumbnail files Kingston SSDNow V300 Series SV300S37A 120G for Postgresql database files A combination of Western Digital Green/Red drives for files Dean, could you share what hardware are you using? Regards! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanable Posted April 27, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 27, 2015 I am running Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard Intel Xeon CPU E3-1220 v3 @ 3.1GHz 16 GB RAM on a 64bit machine Assets are located on a NAS drive, but the thumbnails & PostreSQL files are stored on the same drive as the Daminion installation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russell Posted July 25, 2015 Report Share Posted July 25, 2015 Dean, What NAS are you using? Specs for it? Thanks, Russell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
faroe2k9 Posted August 3, 2015 Report Share Posted August 3, 2015 #Dean Is it a performance issue that you have the PostreSQL files stored on the same driver as Daminion installaition? I have about 100.000 images - and lot of them in RAW whereas thousands of them is from my Nikon D800 - so files about 50MB each RAW. I DO have some issues with thumbnails not being generated fast enough, even though i have a very fast machine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murat Posted August 5, 2015 Report Share Posted August 5, 2015 The best performance can be archived when files are located on the same computer with the Daminion Server. So to eliminate low network bandwidth impact when generating thumbnails. Please take into account that by default the "Accelerate Preview" option is turned On. And when this option is enabled the thumbnail generation will be slower but previewing RAW images is much faster. We also plan to drastically increase import performance to 5.0 version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russell Posted August 13, 2015 Report Share Posted August 13, 2015 My Daminion thumbnails have always been so slow that I get frustrated and walk away before getting much organizing/work done. I'm just sick of it... So, I'm planning to buy a Monster (i7 8 core, 64GB of RAM). Do I need to move the files locally to have them reasonable, or is NAS acceptable? Can I turn on some setting to have the thumbnails cached permanently to the database (on a local SATA or HD rather than have them built from across the network each time)? (I do have some HUGE files too - 30GB PSB's... large PSDs too) Thanks, Russell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murat Posted August 13, 2015 Report Share Posted August 13, 2015 Network is the bottleneck when working with large files. You will drastically increase the performance after moving files to the server PC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russell Posted August 13, 2015 Report Share Posted August 13, 2015 Thanks Murat. I gather that means they can't be cached locally and they are built from the image each time, just before display? But, re-reading this thread, someone mentioned relocating the thumbnails... how do I do that? Lastly, is there a suggested transfer speed for NO DELAY... Like 50MB/sec? or 100MB/sec? Does it need to be faster? Or, after thumbnails are made locally on a SSD, then NAS storage wouldn't matter as much? Thanks, Russell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murat Posted August 20, 2015 Report Share Posted August 20, 2015 I gather that means they can't be cached locally and they are built from the image each time, just before display? But, re-reading this thread, someone mentioned relocating the thumbnails... how do I do that? Thumbnails are always cached locally. JPEG previews for large image formats can be cached locally in the latest Daminion versions (can be set via Acceelerate Preview option in the Daminion Server admin panel). Lastly, is there a suggested transfer speed for NO DELAY... Like 50MB/sec? or 100MB/sec? Does it need to be faster? Or, after thumbnails are made locally on a SSD, then NAS storage wouldn't matter as much? 1Gbit network should be enough to improve the performance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanable Posted November 4, 2016 Author Report Share Posted November 4, 2016 1 100 878 records today... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobertWhiting Posted January 19, 2017 Report Share Posted January 19, 2017 hi we currently have 171,000 files at about 700GB? dose content files size have any impact on the speed of daminion? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exterminador Posted January 22, 2017 Report Share Posted January 22, 2017 hi we currently have 171,000 files at about 700GB? dose content files size have any impact on the speed of daminion? Hi Robert, With a database with more than 1.5 million files Daminion Server/Client behaves pretty good. I personally recommend having separate drives (preferably solid state drives) for the database files and the thumbnail files (having your media in a different drive helps too). Regards Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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