Most sensible options for improved performance of rclone mount

[GonzaloM (Gonzalo Muñoz)]

What is the problem you are having with rclone?

I'm not having any problem per se, put down your guns, there're no bugs here

I've been using the excellent rclone for a long time now to mount my remotes as local disks and it mostly works, dare I say flawlessly. But I started to skim through the docs and the forum and I see lots and lots of different settings and most of them have the potential to highly improve or plummet performance, so I guess my question is: do you guys have some sane defaults to share with me? I have Mega and GDrive accounts, and my connection is at most 2mbytes/s down and 1mbyte/sec up

What is your rclone version (output from rclone version)

rclone 1.56 - up-to-date
go 1.16.6 - also up-to-date

Which OS you are using and how many bits (eg Windows 7, 64 bit)

Manjaro Linux 5.14 64 bits

Which cloud storage system are you using? (eg Google Drive)

Google Drive and MEGA

The command you were trying to run (eg rclone copy /tmp remote:tmp)

rclone mount

The rclone config contents with secrets removed.

[Google Drive ###########]
type = drive
scope = drive
token = someTechyStuff

[Google Drive ##########]
type = drive
scope = drive
token = someTechyStuff

[####### Fotos]
type = google photos
token = someTechyStuff
read_only = true
read_size = true

[########## Fotos]
type = google photos
token = someTechyStuff
read_size = true

[Mega ###]
type = mega
user = #################
pass = wouldn'tYouLikeToKnow

[Mega ###]
type = mega
user = ##################
pass = wouldn'tYouLikeToKnow

A log from the command with the -vv flag

N/A

[asdffdsa (jojothehumanmonkey)]

hello and welcome to the forum,

• it would be helpful to post your current command(s).
• the internet connect is just 2MB/s and 1MB/s, is that correct, seem super slow?
• about the rclone mount, what do you use it for.?
• is there something specific you want to do but have problems with.?

[GonzaloM (Gonzalo Muñoz)]

mountRemotes () 
{ 
nohup rclone mount "Google Drive ##########:" /path/to/folder/ &
rclone mount "Google Drive ###########:" /path/to/folder/ &
rclone mount "Mega ###:" /path/to/folder/ --vfs-cache-mode full &
rclone mount "Mega ###:" /path/to/folder/ --vfs-cache-mode full
}

2. Mind that I said Megabytes. What you may call a 20GB WiFi
3. Everything. Mostly backups and transfer between machines. I usually ssh into a very fast instance somewhere with crazy speeds and I use my remotes to save the work and keep working later at home.
4. Not particularly. I just want to make the best use of the tool.

[asdffdsa (jojothehumanmonkey)]

sorry, not understanding the internet connection speeds that rclone is running on.
2mbytes/s
20GB WiFi

it important when optimizing rclone.

for example, , 894mbps / 10 = approx. 90MB/s

[GonzaloM (Gonzalo Muñoz)]

Could you tell me which tool is that? So I can take a screenshot directly and show you

[asdffdsa (jojothehumanmonkey)]

the website is speedtest.net

over ssh, running on a raspberry pi 4

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ speedtest-cli
Retrieving speedtest.net configuration...
Testing from Verizon Fios (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx)...
Retrieving speedtest.net server list...
Selecting best server based on ping...
Hosted by Xiber LLC (Washington, DC) [330.75 km]: 15.759 ms
Testing download speed................................................................................
Download: 496.93 Mbit/s
Testing upload speed......................................................................................................
Upload: 647.39 Mbit/s

[GonzaloM (Gonzalo Muñoz)]

This is y output from speedtestDotNet:

I know, it's sad... Nothing I can do about it unless I move from my country continent

[asdffdsa (jojothehumanmonkey)]

at those speeds and the the use-case of using rclone for backups, not sure much can be done to optimize rclone mount.
i would suggest for backups, using rclone sync instead of rclone mount.

so you have access over ssh to computer that has fast internet?
is there a reason not to use that computer when working from home?

[GonzaloM (Gonzalo Muñoz)]

Mostly lag and costs of service. I only use it for really intensive operations every once in a while.
Thanks for your answers!

[asdffdsa (jojothehumanmonkey)]

have you tried mosh ssh, as it is designed for high latency internet connectins such as mobile phones.
it uses UDP, not TCP.

[GonzaloM (Gonzalo Muñoz)]

I have not. I'll give it a try next time