Trying to get immich remote machine learning working.
I've set up immich in my synology nas and remote machine learning windows via docker desktop app. however the nas is not sending anything. really no idea how to get it fix. Anyone can help?



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appreciate your help @sogan, let me know if u need anything more
It looks like it’s being used based on the logs?
dont think so
It’s clearly getting requests since it’s loading models
this was so long ago

is it? im not sure
or should i turn on more detail logs to see it better
Unless you queried the remote ML server yourself, the only way you’d get those logs is if it got requests to process images
I cant tell
seems like server is not requesting to process anything
You can check nvidia-smi or better yet nvtop to confirm GPU utilization

my server is running stuff
The remote ML server doesn’t output logs for individual requests fyi
where do I input this nvtop
For windows it might be easier to use nvidia-smi or a gui-based tool like hwinfo64
Also, if those ML logs are the last logs from the container, it means the remote container has been getting a steady stream of requests. It would have unloaded the models if they weren’t used within a 5 minute period
ah
i still cant confirm
or do I need all normal container to get it working?
I only have 1 atm

perhaps it is working, i can see the gpu jumping around with network traffic

Check the performance tab
i am trying the same thing, i see similar things in the log, my GPU seems to be only used 7-8%, did you ever figure this out?
looks like it's running but it could run a lot faster?
my data is on a synology nas
not sure if it's correct that it runs this every time: "loading detection model 'buffalo_l' to memory"
i would expect the detection model to be loaded once and kept in memory while processing is happening?


this is my config
those errors make me think there is something else going on there...
[05/03/25 00:06:59] ERROR Worker (pid:4325) was sent code 139!
It’s crashing with segmentation faults. That’s often a driver issue. Maybe check that docker desktop is up to date?
i just installed it
i did update the nvidia drivers right now after i started the container, let me kill it and restart it
Yeah, updating the driver can also cause that
same issue after killing the container and restarting it
maybe i need to reboot
You would probably need to restart docker
Or restart your pc
seems to be working without errors after the reboot, still only between 10-20% on the gpu tho
even setting to 100 each doesn't seem to use the gpu much, spikes around 30%, are there any recommended values somewhere?

Setting it that high is counterproductive. My guess is that it’s an IO bottleneck: you can’t load the images fast enough to keep the GPU saturated
Are the thumbnails stored on an SSD or an HDD?
hdd
Yeah that would do it. Putting them on an SSD would make a huge diffference, not just in processing speed but also in day to day use
i do want to add an ssd to the nas for caching... i am trying to find the docs for how to point immich thumbnails to that, do i just remap /thumbs in the volume?
thanks for all the help, i am gonna keep those values at 50 for now unless there is some recommended values per gpu somewhere 🙂
I find that 16 is enough on a 4090 with an nvme. Also, try switching to a slower and better model. The default model is very fast but not as good as some others, so since you’re already bottlenecked by IO you may as well get more out of it
which model do you use? i have a 3090
ViT-SO400M-16-SigLIP2-384__webli
right now, which is one of the best for english. There are charts on how the models compare here as well https://immich.app/docs/features/searching