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ioconnor · 05-04-2015, 06:14 AM

I'm at about 1500 books now. I have an i7-4910, 32GBs of RAM, and two SSDs each half full. Now when I go to add a new book it takes minutes, regardless of the size, as if the database has no indexes on it. If I add say 10 more books I now expect it to take hours!

So I thought maybe I had done something wrong. So I installed a new OS, linux mint, and installed calibre on it and copied over the calibre directory. Everything started up fine with no delays. Then I added a batch of books. Same problem. The screen doesn't refresh. It is like hung and unresponsive. (Though the rest of the computer is fine and I can do work.) I ended up going to bed. This morning the books are in calibre this morning. However now I know the delay is part of a default installation with calibre.

Any chance of adding indexes to the database or doing whatever it takes to let calibre handle large libraries?

05-04-2015, 06:14 AM	#19
ioconnor Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2014 Device: laptop	I'm at about 1500 books now. I have an i7-4910, 32GBs of RAM, and two SSDs each half full. Now when I go to add a new book it takes minutes, regardless of the size, as if the database has no indexes on it. If I add say 10 more books I now expect it to take hours! So I thought maybe I had done something wrong. So I installed a new OS, linux mint, and installed calibre on it and copied over the calibre directory. Everything started up fine with no delays. Then I added a batch of books. Same problem. The screen doesn't refresh. It is like hung and unresponsive. (Though the rest of the computer is fine and I can do work.) I ended up going to bed. This morning the books are in calibre this morning. However now I know the delay is part of a default installation with calibre. Any chance of adding indexes to the database or doing whatever it takes to let calibre handle large libraries?