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ncw
6 years agoCollaborator | Level 8
Rate limiting when uploading files with rclone
I've received complaints from rclone users that file uploads are progressing really slowly.
Digging into it what I see is this:
2020-09-03 11:44:33 DEBUG : too_many_requests/: Too many re...
- 6 years ago
Thanks for the detailed feedback! I'm sharing this with the team.
ncw
6 years agoCollaborator | Level 8
My Test user is uploading 10TB of images. So lots of 2-3MB files.
Using batching the upload is proceeding very quickly (at about 35MB/s) which is great. However every 30 minutes or so they get this error
too_many_requests/.: Too many requests or write operations.
Along with a 300 second Retry-After which rclone obeys.
Rclone is now using batching of 1000 files at a time. It only sends one batch at a time and waits for it to complete. I think that is all the ingredients for successful batching.
If I upload lots of very small (10 byte) files, I can provoke this message after uploading about 5000 of them.
Any ideas on how I can avoid this 300 second lockout? I tried pacing the uploads but it didn't seem to help.
Thanks
capturemomentsphotography209
3 years agoNew member | Level 2
@ncw How do you implement the batching? I am getting this error on a regular basis and its quite annoying.
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