Upload Speed to External Path (FB vs Finder)

[Tylast]

I'm using 4.7 on OSX. Under "edit format", I have the path of the networked drive in the syntax. It works to save the file to the NAS. However, the speed is really slow. I achieve 5x the speed if I use finder to move the files individually (but that's a pain). How can I speed up the FB native file transfer?

[rednoah]

As far as FileBot is concerned, remote files are the same as local files. Mac OS X makes sure that local and remote filesystems work exactly the same. If FileBot moves a file, then it'll ask Mac OS X to move the file, which then either does it on the local filesystem, or send requests to the remote share. Either way, FileBot has no control over what OS X. In that sense it's very surprising that get different performance. It should be pretty much the same.


So you're moving a local file to a mounted volume that is a remote share? How are you testing that one is slower than the other? What is the expected network throughput? What is the bottleneck? So when FileBot is moving files, network speed is not at max speed compared to Finder?


Whatever the issue may be, it's probably more of a configuration issue of your network share, that somehow affects filebot more than finder for some odd reason.


EDIT:


* What Mac OS X version?
* What NAS? What network share protocol? AFP or SMB or NFS?
* What is the max. network speed? Wifi? Gigabit LAN?

[Tylast]

- 10.11.5 Beta (same result prior to 10.11)
- I tried both AFS & SMB protocols - same result
- QNAP NAS
- WiFi transmit rate is appx 108MBps
- Transfer via Finder (drag the same file to directly to the network share) is appx 40MBps
- Transfer via FB is appx 12MBps

[rednoah]

I can't seem to reproduce the results with my setup (OS X 10.11.4, Synology DS213J, 54MBps WiFi, AFP). Takes about the same regardless how I copy files (Finder, cp, FileBot).

It's probably worth trying this via cmdline and see if you get Finder speed, or FileBot speed:

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time cp /path/to/local/file /Volumes/remote/share/folder

[Tylast]

Seems to be finder speed:

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real	0m10.948s
user	0m0.002s
sys	 0m0.267s

[rednoah]

Then I have no idea, because that's pretty much what FileBot is doing. I guess there's nothing you can do about it.

EDIT:

* Are you using Mac App Store FileBot? Or brew-cask FileBot?

[Tylast]

Yeah, I'm stumped to. I appreciate the help though!