On Thursday 20 June 2019 17.39:01 dep wrote:
> as to the initial problem, i can tell (from having watched top) that as
> soon as digikam-trinity is asked to do anything at all -- display a
> picture, open an external program -- it jumps to 100 percent or above,
> unless the external application is ShowFoto, in which case *each* of them
> is at 100 percent.

IMHO there must be some other problem. I have been running digiKam on all my 
photos (several hundred GB by now) and I see no such behaviour (this on two 
different motherboards with different processors).

Thierry