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Synology NAS slow to update thumbs in manager

Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2018 3:17 pm
by Fladmas
Hi,
I have my images stored on a Synology DS218+ with 200 to 700 images per folder. When selecting a folder in the left pane it takes around 12 seconds to show the thumbs in the right view/manager-pane. I can sit and wait until it updates the images one by one.

It seems as if it is creating the thumbs every time? Is there maybe a setting I have missed or set wrongly?

Best regards - help is appreciated!
Andrew

Re: Synology NAS slow to update thumbs in manager

Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2018 4:10 pm
by forum_adm
Hi,

do you use GraphicConverter 10.6.3? That does normally cache the thumbs.
Do you access the NAS with afp or smb?

Thorsten

Re: Synology NAS slow to update thumbs in manager

Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2018 5:08 pm
by Fladmas
Hi Thorsten,
thank you for your help!

I have now tried both AFP and SMB and see somewhat similar speeds. I am running latest GC 10.6.3 (3158) on a 2010 Unibody Macbook Pro running ElCapitan.

/Andrew

Re: Synology NAS slow to update thumbs in manager

Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2018 8:28 am
by forum_adm
Which system version is on the NAS?

Re: Synology NAS slow to update thumbs in manager

Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2018 11:16 pm
by macvf
On a Synology 1515 under OS 6.2 with a 1000 Mbps networks the display is quasi instantaneous on a MBP 2011 under macOS 10.13.
What is your network speed ?

Re: Synology NAS slow to update thumbs in manager

Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2018 11:25 am
by PeterHartman
I had similar issues with working directly on a NAS and switched back to local disks instead of network drives.
I also experienced file locking issues on the Synology NAS.

You can optimize the general access by disabling the following options in GraphicConverter :
  • Uncheck the option „Create custom enclosing folder icon“ in the preferences Browser/General.
    Uncheck the option „Support Spotlight Comment“ in the preferences General/Misc.
    Uncheck the option „Automatic Volume Discovery“ in the preferences Browser/Display.
    Turn checking folders for subfolders OFF (this made a huge difference)
Finally, in general, Mac's are slow with SMB out of the box. You can reduce security overhead by following article : https://support.apple.com/pl-pl/HT205926. This has nothing to do with GC but is a macOS specific issue. My write to NAS speed went from 30 MB/s to 58 MB/s.