# \--no-traverse too slow with lot of files

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**Created:** [March 24, 2022, 4:46pm UTC](https://forum.rclone.org/t/no-traverse-too-slow-with-lot-of-files/29886 "2022-03-24T16:46:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Animosity022](https://forum.rclone.org/user_avatar/forum.rclone.org/animosity022/32/451_2.png) [@Animosity022](https://forum.rclone.org/u/Animosity022)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2022, 6:01pm UTC](https://forum.rclone.org/t/no-traverse-too-slow-with-lot-of-files/29886/12 "2022-03-24T18:01:45Z")

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> [@cberni](#):
>
> ```auto
> 2022/03/24 16:32:03 DEBUG : pacer: Reducing sleep to 8.812356ms
> 2022/03/24 16:32:03 DEBUG : pacer: Reducing sleep to 17.986841ms
> 2022/03/24 16:32:03 DEBUG : pacer: Reducing sleep to 27.954072ms
> 2022/03/24 16:32:03 DEBUG : pacer: Reducing sleep to 37.535528ms
> 2022/03/24 16:32:03 DEBUG : pacer: Reducing sleep to 47.397513ms
> 2022/03/24 16:32:03 DEBUG : pacer: Reducing sleep to 57.118006ms
> 2022/03/24 16:32:03 DEBUG : pacer: Reducing sleep to 66.492779ms
> 2022/03/24 16:32:03 DEBUG : pacer: Reducing sleep to 76.454167ms
> 2022/03/24 16:32:03 DEBUG : pacer: Reducing sleep to 75.789037ms
> 2022/03/24 16:32:03 DEBUG : pacer: Reducing sleep to 85.635785ms
> 2022/03/24 16:32:03 DEBUG : pacer: Reducing sleep to 95.587729ms
> 2022/03/24 16:32:03 DEBUG : pacer: Reducing sleep to 99.397171ms
> 2022/03/24 16:32:04 DEBUG : pacer: Reducing sleep to 0s
> 2022/03/24 16:32:04 DEBUG : pacer: Reducing sleep to 9.165719ms
> 2022/03/24 16:32:04 DEBUG : pacer: Reducing sleep to 17.514978ms
> 2022/03/24 16:32:04 DEBUG : pacer: Reducing sleep to 0s
> 2022/03/24 16:32:04 DEBUG : pacer: Reducing sleep to 9.763753ms
> 2022/03/24 16:32:04 DEBUG : pacer: Reducing sleep to 18.58938ms
> 2022/03/24 16:32:04 DEBUG : pacer: Reducing sleep to 28.467771ms
> 
> ```

I could be misreading the log, but those are what is slowing you down I'd imagine. The pacer is slowing you down, but I'm not familiar with GCS so not sure if that's a normal or non normal thing.

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