Immich•9mo ago

Do I need specific permissions for Immich Docker?

So my Immich is running and everything seems to work as it should (kinda) Picture loading is really slow on the Website and I wonder if maybe some wrong permissions might cause this? I run my mnts (that immich is accessing for files) as my main user with the ID 1000. I then run my docker also as this user and all folders are owned by the robin user (1000) as well, except the database folder which is owned by 999.

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Immich•4/10/25, 8:42 PM

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Zeus•4/10/25, 8:48 PM

We don’t support PGID or PUID

Zeus•4/10/25, 8:50 PM

Where are your database files stored? What kind of network mount are you using for the pictures? What is your server hardware?

ImmichAPP•4/10/25, 8:50 PM

https://immich.app/docs/FAQ/#how-can-i-run-immich-as-a-non-root-user

RobinsonOP•4/10/25, 9:57 PM

My database files are stored under /opt/docker/immich, I have tried running it as root user as well and AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G

Zeus•4/10/25, 9:58 PM

What disk is /opt/docker on?

RobinsonOP•4/10/25, 10:04 PM

the same immich is installed on a m2 ssd

RobinsonOP•4/10/25, 10:04 PM

so it should not be stored externally

Zeus•4/10/25, 10:09 PM

Hmm. Maybe the mount is too slow for the thumbnails. You might want to store that locally

ImmichAPP•4/10/25, 10:09 PM

https://immich.app/docs/guides/custom-locations

Zeus•4/10/25, 10:09 PM

Does it work, it’s just slow to load things when scrolling?

ZZeus Hmm. Maybe the mount is too slow for the thumbnails. You might want to store tha...

RobinsonOP•4/10/25, 10:11 PM

Maybe.. I mean I use it also for video streaming without a problem, since jellyfin also is installed

ZZeus Does it work, it’s just slow to load things when scrolling?

RobinsonOP•4/10/25, 10:11 PM

It does work, so I can see my images, they just take some time to load and I know that at some point I managed to fix this

RobinsonOP•4/10/25, 10:11 PM

but now I switched VM and moved everything and the fix is gone xD

Zeus•4/10/25, 10:13 PM

Video streaming is a very different workload. Thumbs is tons of random reads

Zeus•4/10/25, 10:13 PM

Anyway your immich is fully running as root but that’s a different day problem

RobinsonOP•4/10/25, 10:14 PM

it is yeah

RobinsonOP•4/10/25, 10:17 PM

this shows what I mean

Zeus•4/10/25, 10:18 PM

I think this is due to the poor random performance of networked hard disk. Thumbs on local SSD will be much better

RobinsonOP•4/10/25, 10:19 PM

is there a way to have my pictures stored on my HDD and my library there, but the thumbs on the SSD then? I also don't really have that much space on the SSD

IImmich https://immich.app/docs/guides/custom-locations

Zeus•4/10/25, 10:25 PM

ZZeus ^

RobinsonOP•4/11/25, 7:48 PM

Sorry for the late response. Yeah I switched this now and it seems to work perfectly now! Since those are just the thumbs being stored on my ssd it shouldn't really be a huge issue then if my ssd fails. However what I would like to do now is setting up Hardware Acceleration in Portainer.

To my understanding I don't need the extends part to be uncommented and instead have to add this:

    deploy:
      resources:
        reservations:
          devices:
            - driver: nvidia
              count: 1
              capabilities:
                - gpu
                - compute
                - video

    deploy:
      resources:
        reservations:
          devices:
            - driver: nvidia
              count: 1
              capabilities:
                - gpu
                - compute
                - video

Since I use a nvidia GPU correct? Because running nvidia-smi inside the container seems to not work

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