I have been researching for the past hours, and I found that a lot of other people have had similar problems too, but none of the solutions have worked for me so far. Here is my situation:
I am relatively new to this, so please be easy on me.
I am using an old acer laptop as the Nextcloud server. The laptop has the following specs:
OS: Linux Debian
RAM: 4 GB
CPU: i3-4th gen
Hard drive: HDD with 512 GB
Nextcloud: installed via snap
Here is my use case of Nextcloud: I am a programmer, and I need a place where I can store all of my code and other documents. I only want a home server where I can store my stuff in. I mainly just use my personal laptop (a way better laptop than the acer one) to connect with the server and synchronize the data, but I also have my iOS phone. I havenât had an issue with the iOS client (yet).
Now, when I use the desktop client, which is connected to the server as a virtual file on my personal laptop, the transfer speed from my personal laptop is very very slow (in the kbps). I tried to use the web interface, and it is just a tiny bit faster, but still very slow (still in the kbps). I transfer the data through Wi-Fi (can use LAN tho, but didnât really try) and my internet speed is capped at 30 Mbps.
Here is what I checked and tried:
The internet works fine on both my personal laptop and the acer laptop and can reach speeds near 30 Mbps on both laptops (both connected to Wi-Fi).
Hard drive (HDD) of the server is not the bottleneck. I observed it and it can reach write speeds in the Mbps.
(IMPORTANT I think) While transferring the data on this slow speed, I started to download something on the acer laptop (a packge using sudo apt install). While downloading, the transfer speeds went through the roof in the Mbps. After the download, it stayed like that for a minute or 2 then became slow again.
TL;DR:
Nextcloud installed via snap on an old laptop (HDD; 4 GB; i3-4th gen)
1 user (desktop and iOS clients, same user)
Transfer speeds very slow (in the kbps, while internet can reach Mbps)
Hey @Space.yg, welcome to the Nextcloud community and thanks for supporting Nextcloud snap
Sorry to hear you are having issues with your Nextcloud snap installation. If youâve come this far, youâre on the right track! There is a good chance someone in the community has had a similar issue and knows how to resolve it.
Rest assured, the snap does not throttle anything. So the issue you are describing may be an issue with that client. You seem certain the bottleneck is not a network issue? You did enable HTTPS compression right?
Now I personally have in excess of 6K small files (mainly markdown documents and plenty bash scripts) and although Iâve never used the Nextcloud desktop client, because sync is not backup and sync is not copy, I can agree with you that transferring many small files feels slow (kbps) although I have plenty bandwidth (down 100 up 30).
This is why I prefer a scripted solution using rclone which also automatically backs up my docs to NAS.
Okay, so from what I understand, you want me to copy all of the files over directly into the server and that would avoid the long wait of the slow transfer speed.
I can do that as a temporary solution to copy all of the files, but later when I work, the transfer speeds will still be slow. What do I do about this?
no, you misunderstood! the suggestion was to use an alternative like rclone to see if the transfer rates improve for you.
the slow transfer speeds are probably a Nextcloud desktop client issue⊠youâd have to tell us which client youâre using, how it was installed and do some research about network configurations.
Did you check the nextcloud.log for error messages while tranferring files?
Are the files you are transferring, small (a few KB) or big (several KB oder MB)? - While adding files each needs to be added to the database, what will take a short time.
If you can get additional RAM, try to enlarge RAM to 8GB. So less data will need to be swapped on swap partition.
Yes, most of the data are a bunch of small files, a few Kbs each.
I donât think itâs a RAM problem, the RAM usage is at nearly 50% (1.8 GB/ 3.8 GB RAM; 105 MB/974 MB SWAP). This is from the systm tab in nextcloud web interface. From the system monitor on the laptop itâs 2 GB/4 GB RAM and 168 MB/1 GB SWAP.
Also, one thing I forgot to mention that the CPU usage shown on the system tab in the nextcloud interface shows the CPU using 100%+ of the CPU. This only gets up there when files are being transfered. While from the system monitor on the laptop, the CPU usage shows only â25% usage. Could that be a problem?
So the speed hardly can increase, because after a few KB upload stops and the next file will be read. Test the speed with a few bigger files, f.ex. video.
Works as designed. The speed of small files cannot really increase, because after milliseconds the upload of one file is finished and the next file will be called. It is an up and down of tranfer speed per file.
But other cloud services are way faster, such as OneDrive. I used to use OneDrive and the files were uploading normally. Why is it uploading one file at a time? Canât it upload multiple files at a time?
