Comment 24 for bug 571371

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John O'Brien (jdobrien) wrote : Re: [Bug 571371] Re: Ubuntu One sync is ridiculously slow

On 03/19/2011 12:01 AM, mastapat11 wrote:
> I'm on Lucid for almost a yr and it has ALWAYS worked this crappy
> (upgrades and all). For the longest time, i've had a whopping 500kb in
> the cloud and sync was dog shit slow from pc to pc to virts. i made the
> horrible mistake of add two 5mb files last night and its going on 24hrs
> still trying to just sync them to the cloud, not even other pcs.
>
> this can not simply be a lack of servers still. something is wrong w/
> this client/api. and i've NEVER seen it fixed on multiple pcs & ver of
> ubu (lucid, mav, natty). Even if it was my physical location being too
> far from the nearest u1 server, this is absurd! 24 HOURS & counting!!!
>
> i have the log attached:
>

We had systemic problems the other night that took a while to diagnose. We apologise for the inconvenience.

Regarding speed of different versions, the lucid version unfortunately did have performance issues with its sync
process. However, latest versions have significant performance improvements due to a rewrite of the sync process. The
latest nightly builds of the client include more performance improvements.