Traversing through folders very slow (Rpi4, SMB, offline, NAS)

thekryz · August 11, 2023 at 1:05 PM

I am using LibreELEC 11.0.3 on a Raspberry Pi 4 with 4GB RAM. It's connected to a Synology NAS via LAN and it's in no way connected to the internet. Files are accessed via SMB, because I want the user authentication (seems to not work with NFS).

My issue is that two things are very, VERY slow:

traversing through the folders on the NAS
starting the video file for playback

Both of these take minutes!! Since I have a multi-layered folder structure on my NAS, starting a video can, all in all, take an hour or more. This is obviously unacceptable.

This is my first try to use LibreELEC and Kodi, so this might be a n00b question, but how can I speed things up?

I have of course tried to find answers in the forum before posting, but haven't found an adequate answer.

Some more information (not sure if relevant):

The NAS is connected to one other computer which was turned off for testing, so the issue cannot be multiple access / reaching network capacity
The NAS can be somewhat sluggish when accessed via macOS sometimes, but never this slow.
Once playback of the video has started, it works perfectly. No hiccups, no breaks - I can watch it all in one go, I can pause, I can add subs etc. LibreELEC itself, all menus etc. work perfectly fine as well.
I'm a bit confused concerning indexing of the folders I added to the "Movies" and the "TV Shows" categories. I expected video files to be listed / clustered somehow in a native Kodi-style after indexing / adding them to the categories, but I still have to traverse the NAS folders manually to watch a video? Did I maybe do something wrong when setting the folders up?

Thank you guys so much for the support! If I can provide any additional info, please tell me what to provide.

**chewitt** · August 13, 2023 at 12:01 PM

You probably need to share a Kodi debug log for anyone to comment on what might be happening. As someone using an RPi4 for the family daily driver and with all media stored on a Synology NAS accessed over SMB .. I can state that don't see large delays in playback start (it's near instant) so it's something odd and specific to your environment.

DsSpors · December 13, 2023 at 6:35 AM

Quote from thekryz

I am using LibreELEC 11.0.3 on a Raspberry Pi 4 with 4GB RAM. It's connected to a Synology NAS via LAN and it's in no way connected to the internet. Files are accessed via SMB, because I want the user authentication (seems to not work with NFS).
My issue is that two things are very, VERY slow:
traversing through the folders on the NAS
starting the video file for playback
Both of these take minutes!! Since I have a multi-layered folder structure on my NAS, starting a video can, all in all, take an hour or more. This is obviously unacceptable.
This is my first try to use LibreELEC and Kodi, so this might be a n00b question, but how can I speed things up?
I have of course tried to find answers in the forum before posting, but haven't found an adequate answer.
Some more information (not sure if relevant):
The NAS is connected to one other computer which was turned off for testing, so the issue cannot be multiple access / reaching network capacity
The NAS can be somewhat sluggish when accessed via macOS sometimes, but never this slow.
Once playback of the video has started, it works perfectly. No hiccups, no breaks - I can watch it all in one go, I can pause, I can add subs etc. LibreELEC itself, all menus etc. work perfectly fine as well.
I'm a bit confused concerning indexing of the folders I added to the "Movies" and the "TV Shows" categories. I expected video files to be listed / clustered somehow in a native Kodi-style after indexing / adding them to the categories, but I still have to traverse the NAS folders manually to watch a video? Did I maybe do something wrong when setting the folders up?
Thank you guys so much for the support! If I can provide any additional info, please tell me what to provide.

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Did you ever solve this?

I have a similar setup and things started getting slow some weeks ago.

Just had no time to investgate yet.

Stooovie · log-2024-09-30-15.35.11.zip

This started to happen with 12.0.1. It's the same Rpi4, same Synology connected via SMB (over ethernet). Worked fine for years, now unbearably slow. Accessing folders can take a minute easily, where it took under three seconds before.

Logs here.