Why download from rclone mount is slower than download from web?

Help and Support
1

I have google drive account. When I download a file from google drive using web browser, I get the max speed my network allowed(20Mbps).

But when I download the same file from rclone mount(copy paste from windows explorer), The speed is horrible(fluctuating from 0 - 5Mbps).

Here are the rclone mount command
screen -S rclone.mount -d -m /usr/sbin/rclone mount
–allow-other
–max-read-ahead 200M
–checkers 40
–read-only
–uid 99
–gid 100
-v
gdrive:
/mnt/user/Cloud/gdrive/

Why cant I get the same speed like when I use the web browser? Whats wrong with my rclone command?

Thanks.

2

There have been others who complained of similar behavior but no one was able to prove where the slowness was being introduced. My tests are that I can saturate my 100Megabit connection with a single download from Google Drive on a linux host.

HS -> rm ~/01_20170619232717000.MP4; rsync --progress ./01_20170619232717000.MP4 ~/
01_20170619232717000.MP4
456,949,760 87% 12.07MB/s 0:00:05

12/MB = around 96Mb

I’m not saying that you don’t have a problem of that rclone isn’t doing something ‘bad’ but I personally can’t recreate the issue.

3

What speed do you get when copying a file using rclone cp instead of rclone mount?

4

The same.

HS -> rclone copy robgs:/cams/backyard/20170619/01_20170619232717000.MP4 ~/ -v --stats 15s
2017/06/20 13:09:15 INFO : Local file system at /home/robert: Modify window is 1ms
2017/06/20 13:09:15 INFO : Local file system at /home/robert: Waiting for checks to finish
2017/06/20 13:09:15 INFO : Local file system at /home/robert: Waiting for transfers to finish
2017/06/20 13:09:30 INFO :
Transferred: 174.996 MBytes (10.632 MBytes/s)
Errors: 0
Checks: 0
Transferred: 0
Elapsed time: 16.4s
Transferring:

  •                  01_20170619232717000.MP4: 35% done, 11.607 MBytes/s, ETA: 27s
5

How are you testing the speed for the mount? I hope you are not looking at the stats on the mount itself as those r clone stats are averages over the life of the mount.