Floccus very slow on NC Bookmarks

[christianlupus]

Which version of floccus are you using?

5.8.6

How many bookmarks do you have, roughly?

5k

Are you using other means to sync bookmarks in parallel to floccus?

I had Firefox/Mozilla account active. It should be disabled AFAIK/understand.

Sync method

Nextcloud Bookmarks

Which browser are you using? In case you are using the phone App, specify the Android or iOS version and device please.

Firefox in various versions, e.g. 143.0.1

Which version of Nextcloud Bookmarks are you using? (if relevant)

16.0.1

Which version of Nextcloud? (if relevant)

32.0.2

What kind of WebDAV server are you using? (if relevant)

Nextcloud (same instance)

Describe the Bug

When using the NC bookmarks as backend, the sync of my bookmarks takes incredibly long. I was not able to sync the bookmarks within 10h or so. I let it run for that time and at some point it was aborted.

Using the same machine with the same folder to sync and either WebDAV or Git (using Gitea) takes in the range of 10sec for an initial sync. Any further sync might speed up to mere seconds.

Additionally, I do not get any kind of logs from floccus. Neither in the UI (sync settings). I opened the browser logs and did not see anything that seems to be related to Floccus. Thus, I need clear instructions on how to access valuable logs.

I have looked on the network activity and saw that the bookmarks seem to be processed in chunks (of 10 to 15 entries) that are individually sent to the server. Each (PUT) request takes ~10 to 20 sec to return. Thus, every 20 to 30 secs a new bunch is transmitted. This would mean approx. 3.5 hours of continuous communication.

Expected Behavior

All bookmarks get synced in reasonable time. Especially when running in regular intervals, sync should not take too long.

To Reproduce

Just have a bigger set of bookmarks on Firefox, install&configure the app and trigger sync.

Debug log provided

• I have provided a debug log file

[github-actions]

Hello! 👋

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[marcelklehr]

Hi @christianlupus
Thank you for reporting this!
Do you have APCu enabled? If not this would make a big difference. Other than that 5k bookmarks should be synced up quite quickly, from my tests with NC Bookmarks. Is your server machine on the low end spec wise, perhaps?
Also, when you reported this to me 1-1, v5.8.6 was not out yet, so perhaps you can retry with that version unless you're certain that you tried it with v5.8.6