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feklee

Ultra slow smart search

It takes about 2 minutes per image, and I have more than 140,000 images, many of the 20 MB Sony ARW images. I reinstalled Immich a few weeks ago, which involved recreation of the database. As I only use external folders in read-only mode, I could do that again. But I’m not sure if it’s worth the effort.

My machine is a Hetzner [ex44][1] dedicated server with a Core i5-13500 and 64 GiB of RAM. When I look at
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, Immich uses between 0.3 and 0.7 % CPU power.

Is there any way to speed up Smart Search?

[1]: https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ex44/
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