Obsidian Sync slow/struggling to download images on Linux/Fedora

Steps to reproduce

  • Download Obsidian AppImage
  • Open AppImage
  • Create local vault from existing vault via Obsidian sync
  • Wait and check log
2024-08-15 10:43 - Downloading file 3) Technical/Statistics/Survival Analysis/assets/Pasted image 20231024092008.png
2024-08-15 10:44 - Downloading complete 3) Technical/Statistics/Survival Analysis/assets/Pasted image 20231024092008.png
2024-08-15 10:44 - Accepted 3) Technical/Statistics/Survival Analysis/assets/Pasted image 20231024092008.png
2024-08-15 10:44 - Downloading file 3) Technical/Statistics/Basics/assets/entropy_example.png
2024-08-15 10:44 - Downloading complete 3) Technical/Statistics/Basics/assets/entropy_example.png
2024-08-15 10:44 - Accepted 3) Technical/Statistics/Basics/assets/entropy_example.png
2024-08-15 10:44 - Downloading file 3) Technical/Mathematics/Calculus/assets/Jacobian_square_transform.png
2024-08-15 10:44 - Downloading complete 3) Technical/Mathematics/Calculus/assets/Jacobian_square_transform.png
2024-08-15 10:44 - Accepted 3) Technical/Mathematics/Calculus/assets/Jacobian_square_transform.png
2024-08-15 10:44 - Downloading file 3) Technical/Statistics/Basics/assets/wikitable.png
2024-08-15 10:44 - Downloading complete 3) Technical/Statistics/Basics/assets/wikitable.png
2024-08-15 10:44 - Accepted 3) Technical/Statistics/Basics/assets/wikitable.png
2024-08-15 10:44 - Downloading file 3) Technical/Statistics/Basics/assets/Pasted image 20230905120617.png
2024-08-15 10:45 - Downloading complete 3) Technical/Statistics/Basics/assets/Pasted image 20230905120617.png

That is obsidian sync is only managing to download ~4 images a minute. This means for my current vault of ~1500 files with maybe 250 images would take somewhere around 50-70 minutes just to download the image files. Admittedly I don’t know what background processes / indexing are being run but this strikes me as rather long as these files are mostly only around 20-60KB:

~/Desktop/Notes/3) Technical/Statistics/Basics/assets
> ll
total 340K
-rw-r--r-- 1 gowerc gowerc 38K Jul 31  2023  entropy_change_over_P.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 gowerc gowerc 44K Jul 31  2023  entropy_example.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 gowerc gowerc 47K Sep  5  2023 'Pasted image 20230905120617.png'
-rw-r--r-- 1 gowerc gowerc 48K Mar 19 18:31 'Pasted image 20240319183120.png'
-rw-r--r-- 1 gowerc gowerc 20K Mar 18  2019  pdf_region.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 gowerc gowerc 22K Mar 18  2019  phi.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 gowerc gowerc 41K Mar 18  2019  prec_recall.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 gowerc gowerc 23K Mar 18  2019  roc_curve.png
-rw-r--r-- 1 gowerc gowerc 47K Mar 18  2019  wikitable.png

Not sure if related but the sync process also appears to keep getting disconnected and taking ~1-3 minutes to re-connect:

2024-08-15 10:45 - Downloading file 3) Technical/Mathematics/General/assets/Pasted image 20230202111129.png
2024-08-15 10:48 - Disconnected 3) Technical/Mathematics/General/assets/Pasted image 20230202111129.png
2024-08-15 10:48 - Connecting to server
2024-08-15 10:48 - Connection successful. Detecting changes...
2024-08-15 10:48 - Downloading file 3) Technical/Mathematics/General/assets/Pasted image 20230202111129.png
2024-08-15 10:48 - Downloading complete 3) Technical/Mathematics/General/assets/Pasted image 20230202111129.png
2024-08-15 10:48 - Accepted 3) Technical/Mathematics/General/assets/Pasted image 20230202111129.png

Sync has now been running for 40 minutes on my machine and it currently has only download 8MB / 84MB of content (or 920 / 1470 files)

Did you follow the troubleshooting guide? [Y]

I have not tried the sandbox as this issue occurred on a completely fresh install whilst trying to sync an existing remote repository from scratch (no files / folders present on my machine)

Expected result

I would have hoped sync to download the contents in a more reasonable time. The total file count is ~1500 files and ~80MB; I’m not sure what a reasonable time is but >1 hour feels excessive.

Actual result

Syncing is taking an exceptionally long time

Environment

SYSTEM INFO:
	Obsidian version: v1.6.7
	Installer version: v1.6.7
	Operating system: #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Mon Aug  5 14:30:00 UTC 2024 6.10.3-200.fc40.x86_64
	Login status: logged in
	Catalyst license: none
	Insider build toggle: off
	Live preview: on
	Base theme: adapt to system
	Community theme: none
	Snippets enabled: 0
	Restricted mode: on

RECOMMENDATIONS:
	none
# System Details Report
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## Report details
- **Date generated:**                              2024-08-15 11:11:40

## Hardware Information:
- **Hardware Model:**                              Dell Inc. Inspiron 16 7610
- **Memory:**                                      32.0 GiB
- **Processor:**                                   11th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-11800H × 16
- **Graphics:**                                    Intel® UHD Graphics (TGL GT1)
- **Disk Capacity:**                               1.0 TB

## Software Information:
- **Firmware Version:**                            1.7.0
- **OS Name:**                                     Fedora Linux 40 (Workstation Edition)
- **OS Build:**                                    (null)
- **OS Type:**                                     64-bit
- **GNOME Version:**                               46
- **Windowing System:**                            Wayland
- **Kernel Version:**                              Linux 6.10.3-200.fc40.x86_64

Apologies just to say after double checking that the average image size is more like 200Kb - 500Kb. Even with that in mind I can’t help but feel the sync time is still too excessively long. Its now been an hour since the sync started and I’m still only at 14Mb / 80Mb

Looks like I jumped the gun on the bug report. Just did a full system restart and its now syncing at a normal speed (downloaded the remaining 50MB in ~2 min). Guess I’ll close the issue…

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