Deimos Posted August 22, 2013 Report Share Posted August 22, 2013 Hello *,I'm running a few instances of BTSync (all 1.1.70), with one of them on a backup server.On this machine I see btsync indexing all the directories every 10 minutes or so.If I correctly understand what's going on I could say the app is rescanning all my files (~130.000) on each check.Is it possible to avoid these checks altogether, maybe using some sort of event-driven approach? inotify comes to my mind for Linux, others are needed for different OSsI think this is important because at the moment my hard disk is always awake and spinning, while it could rest (read: save energy and noise) untill an event is raised (such as a modified file).Thanks for your attention. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greentown Posted August 22, 2013 Report Share Posted August 22, 2013 I created a similar topic some time ago:http://forum.bittorrent.com/topic/22318-bittorrent-sync-and-disk-spin-down/#entry62044...but never got a helpful answer. In my case, I saw HDD activity every 30 minutes, not 10, but I think you have the same problem as me. It's a pity, because this way BTSync is not very enviromentally friendly... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreatMarko Posted August 22, 2013 Report Share Posted August 22, 2013 Try changing the advanced "folder_rescan_interval" setting from the default 600 (seconds) (i.e. 10 minutes) to a much higher value. This will mean that Sync won't do a complete re-scan of the folders you're syncing as often Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deimos Posted August 22, 2013 Author Report Share Posted August 22, 2013 Thanks GreatMarko, your solution is actually working in my case! Sorry for not trying the solution on the other topic, negative answers pulled me away.Bye Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bramski Posted September 6, 2013 Report Share Posted September 6, 2013 If I turn down the frequency of full scan intervals, will I not get new file detection very often? I've also got a pretty large number of files (6.7G in small files), but I need the changes to be propagated with some reasonable speed (>10 min isn't really acceptable). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreatMarko Posted September 6, 2013 Report Share Posted September 6, 2013 If I turn down the frequency of full scan intervals, will I not get new file detection very often? I've also got a pretty large number of files (6.7G in small files), but I need the changes to be propagated with some reasonable speed (>10 min isn't really acceptable).Sync monitors folders in "real-time", however, as a "fall back" it also does a complete rescan every 10 minutes. If you set the "folder_rescan_interval" setting much higher, this will not affect "real time" monitoring, just complete folder rescans Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter.m.calloway Posted September 6, 2013 Report Share Posted September 6, 2013 One of my node is a server. I never change any file on the server. Only my laptops change the files.Can I "disable" (or set a very long period) the full rescan on the server ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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