petko10 Posted September 11, 2014 Report Share Posted September 11, 2014 Hello everyone, my problem is that BTSync just eats a lot of CPU time, because of the size of my pictures folder (20GB, ~20k files) . Is there a way to tweak the settings in order to minimize the problem? For example configure BTSync to index the folder every three days or something like that (I don't really need instant sync for that folder - it's an archive) . Btw I'm on Linux (Manjaro). I guess other people have come across the problem, so instead of reinventing the wheel I figured I'd ask. Thanks in advance for any advice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimmyTheSaint Posted September 11, 2014 Report Share Posted September 11, 2014 Which version of btsync? What's your CPU usage? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreatMarko Posted September 11, 2014 Report Share Posted September 11, 2014 Is there a way to tweak the settings in order to minimize the problem? For example configure BTSync to index the folder every three days or something like that (I don't really need instant sync for that folder - it's an archive) . Btw I'm on Linux (Manjaro). Not really - CPU optimizations will likely follow in subsequent "beta" builds. In the meantime, perhaps if you don't need "instant" sync and only wish to index/sync every 3 days, it might be worth investigating setting Sync to run/exit on a schedule every couple of days rather than it running all the time? (you'd have to do this via the OS though as there's currently no such functionality within Sync itself at this time - that said, the ability to "schedule" when syncing occurs is a popular suggestion over in the Feature Requests forum) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petko10 Posted September 11, 2014 Author Report Share Posted September 11, 2014 Thanks for the quick replies. The version of BTSync is 1.4.72-1 (I noticed there's an update to "..-2" but I'd guess it won't fix the issue) . The CPU usage is about half of the capacity of my "Pentium Dual-Core CPU E5400 @ 2.70GHz" , which significantly slows things down if there is any other program trying to do something and it happens quite often. About scheduling : it would be a problem to schedule through the OS, because I have other folders which I do want to sync instantly. I'll maybe use some other sync program for the photo collection after all. I do hope scheduling lands in BTSync (because relying on algorithm optimizations to take care of processing large amounts of data is not a realistic alternative). Edit: the new version is 1.4.75-2 , I'm a few point releases back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RomanZ Posted September 12, 2014 Report Share Posted September 12, 2014 @petko10 Does it keep that hight when no other peers are available online? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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