Immich-server incredible slow, can`t upload pictures and container crashes
My Immich Server is incredible slow. I can`t really upload any pictures anymore. If takes like 15-30 mins to upload a single picture and then the server usually dies and I have to restart the container.
The Background task for creating thumbnails is broken too. Thumbnail generations aborts with error. If I restart it by hand, it usually runs smoothly but slow. But it still does have problem to load all the thumbnails. A lot of my thumbnails are blured or have "Error while loading the picture"
Last time the container died so hard, that I could ne stop/kill or even remove it. Since the container did not responded. Even a restart of the docker daemon did not helped. I had to fully restart the complete server to kill it and restart it.
Just now I tried to access the generall settings and got this error:
I use immich in docker on an ubuntu home server. Everything is freshly up to date. Database is on the locally SSD. Data (Pictures/Thumbs etc) are on a connected NAS
Any ideas how to fix that? Or is it a storage problem? The NAS is working completly normal for me
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If this ticket can be closed you can use the /close command, and re-open it later if needed.What is the system specs of the Ubuntu server?
It sounds more like your NAS might have a terrible connection or just not working properly. How is it mounted?
Please post compose and env and I pray you don't have nested mounts
Its a beelink mini pc. Kinda potent. Beelink Mini PC EQ12 Office Mini Computer, 12th Gen Intel Alder Lake-N100 Prozessor (bis zu 3.40GHz), 16GB DDR5 500GB SSD and its not at all under load. Usually only a up to 10-20% load.
NAS is a WD My Cloud EX2 Ultra. I know, shame on me. But it is doing its job and not under load too. I can freely work with it and I dont see any bad connection etc.
I suspect that a standalone hard drive “NAS” is unable to sustain the IOPS required for immich
Are you using samba or what?
To test you can try using a local mount directly on the Ubuntu server
I mount it via (Samba)
The database is on the internal SSD. ONLY the pictures/thumbnails etc are on the NAS
I would try with local storage to test. That seems like the cause of these issues
Yes I understand that but you’re having all these issues with the thumbs etc
and it worked flawless for like a year
Not saying the hardware is bad, but that's the thing with everything that's broken
it all worked until it didn't
From the specs it should work fine, but like zeus said just try it locally to eliminate other factors
It was the NAS. One drive was dead, even though the NAS displayed it as healthy. The other one had really bad SMART values and is probly close to dead. Rebuilded the array and it works like a charm now. Tests before rebuilding showed incredible speeds of around 5-10 kb/s on the NAS 😄
thanks @Mraedis @Zeus
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