I’ve successfuly installed notify_push app expecting less load on my server (mainly using Group Folders) caused by Desktop Sync clients, but it changes nothing, my server keeps serving PROPFIND requests ever and ever to Desktop clients, is this normal?
# occ notify_push:self-test
✓ redis is configured
✓ push server is receiving redis messages
✓ push server can load mount info from database
✓ push server can connect to the Nextcloud server
✓ push server is a trusted proxy
✓ push server is running the same version as the app
you can check if notify_push usage using following command
occ notify_push:metrics
Active connections should increase/decrease if NC client is started/stopped
file change should result in “message send”
grep your nextcloud.log file for PROPFIND - without notify_push every client performs such operation every 30sec if it works this happens every 5 min (I think)
you can do self test as well docker exec --user www-data dev-nextcloud-app php occ notify_push:self-test
Thanks, but as the flood of PROPFIND requests is never ending, how can I tell if notify_push makes a difference or not? Main purpose of this should be a reduced server load, but it changes nothing (with ou without notify_push, load is the same because of the continuous PROPFIND requests from sync clients).
# occ notify_push:metrics
Active connection count: 45
Active user count: 31
Total connection count: 2435
Total database query count: 1709
Events received: 1124088
Messages sent: 37850
They are still supposed to happen regularly, but less often.
Do you mean CPU load? If yes, how high is it? Are people working in the webUI or are files beeing downloaded/uploaded while the load is high or is the high load only caused by the PROPFIND requeests? How many clients are connected?
In my case (2 clients connected at the moment) the PROPFIND requests cause a spike in CPU load of about 1.3%. However, they are actually less frequent when Notify Push is on, coming in every 5 minutes instead of every 30 seconds as @wwe said.