Excessive propfind connections

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I see in the apache log (access_log) excessive connections coming from the nextcloud client:

192.168.2.200 - - [13/Nov/2019:16:07:56 -0300] “PROPFIND /remote.php/dav/files/user/ HTTP/1.1” 207 384 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows) mirall/2.6.1stable-Win64 (build 20191105) (Nextcloud)”
192.168.2.200 - - [13/Nov/2019:16:07:59 -0300] “PROPFIND /remote.php/dav/files/user/ HTTP/1.1” 207 385 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows) mirall/2.6.1stable-Win64 (build 20191105) (Nextcloud)”
192.168.2.200 - - [13/Nov/2019:16:07:59 -0300] “PROPFIND /remote.php/dav/files/user/ HTTP/1.1” 207 330 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows) mirall/2.5.4 (build 11415)”
192.168.2.200 - - [13/Nov/2019:16:08:01 -0300] “PROPFIND /remote.php/dav/files/user/ HTTP/1.1” 207 384 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows) mirall/2.6.1stable-Win64 (build 20191105) (Nextcloud)”
192.168.2.200 - - [13/Nov/2019:16:08:06 -0300] “PROPFIND /remote.php/dav/files/user/ HTTP/1.1” 207 384 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows) mirall/2.6.1stable-Win64 (build 20191105) (Nextcloud)”
192.168.2.200 - - [13/Nov/2019:16:08:11 -0300] “PROPFIND /remote.php/dav/files/user/ HTTP/1.1” 207 384 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows) mirall/2.6.1stable-Win64 (build 20191105) (Nextcloud)”
192.168.2.200 - - [13/Nov/2019:16:08:16 -0300] “PROPFIND /remote.php/dav/files/user/ HTTP/1.1” 207 384 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows) mirall/2.6.1stable-Win64 (build 20191105) (Nextcloud)”
192.168.2.200 - - [13/Nov/2019:16:08:18 -0300] “PROPFIND /remote.php/dav/files/user/ HTTP/1.1” 207 350 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows) mirall/2.5.4 (build 11415)”
192.168.2.200 - - [13/Nov/2019:16:08:21 -0300] “PROPFIND /remote.php/dav/files/user/ HTTP/1.1” 207 384 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows) mirall/2.6.1stable-Win64 (build 20191105) (Nextcloud)”
192.168.2.200 - - [13/Nov/2019:16:08:26 -0300] “PROPFIND /remote.php/dav/files/user/ HTTP/1.1” 207 384 “-” “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows) mirall/2.6.1stable-Win64 (build 20191105) (Nextcloud)”

I have several clients and the registration becomes very extensive and heavy.
I want to know if this can be improved in any way.
Thank you!

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I think there was about 1 propfind query every 30s. There were reports that on some client versions where this interval was shortened to 5s (you can change that in the client configuration, it will be repaired in newer versions):

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I don’t see that option in v. 2.6.1 for Linux.
Anyway, is it possible to use some PUSH notifications via Web Socket and sync only when necessary?

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You can edit the config file manually, here is the location for it:
https://docs.nextcloud.com/desktop/2.6/advancedusage.html#configuration-file

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