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Kundle K.'s avatar
Kundle K.
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11 years ago

Why is it so slow uploadfile

I'm using the UploadFile two time and I recive the direct share link of both files but perdure like 3 s for do all that, I think it is a lot time. The calculation was 63 KB (first file) and the secon...
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Greg-DB
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10 years ago

To be clear, the deduplication isn't the only optimization the desktop client makes, so it still isn't a perfect comparison.

There is some overhead when using chunked uploading, as you have to make a new HTTP request for each chunk. You can increase the chunk size you're using to reduce that impact, albeit at the cost of being more prone to errors, such as timeouts.

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