Connection to remote server is very slow

Troubleshooting
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1

Creating a bug report/issue

Required Information

  • DietPi version | 8.24.1
  • SBC model | Rpi4 4gig
  • SD card used | SanDisk

Steps to reproduce

Connect with Putty, run dietpi- command

Expected behaviour

fast execution of apps

Actual behaviour

loading anything dietpi-??? runs Very slow. over 1 minute to load dietpi-drive_manager, when running locally it would load instantly.

Both my desktop and the remote Rpi are on 1 gig networks. When i was at my brother house and connected things would be instant.

2

dietpi-drive_managercould need some time if it tries to contact a network share which is not available anymore. It tries until it reaches the timeout.
But you said it appears

  • within every dietpi tool
  • only via SSH
  • only in your LAN (because at your brothers house it’s working fast)

I would rule out a hardware problem, because it’s not always slow, only with special conditions.
Sounds like a problem with your network to me, and not with DietPi itself :thinking:

For example when you use dietpi-drive_manager do you see some lines after you hit enter (like:

dietpi-drive_manager [ INFO ] DietPi-Drive_Manager | Detecting drives, please wait...

and then it stucks or does it need minutes to show anything?

3

maybe some IP address conflict, leading to a slow connection?

4

It looks like my dietpi still has a /mnt/MyBook which was the drive i was syncing from still listed, but its not listed in the dietpi-Drive_manager im wondering if its trying to reconnect to that and cant. how do i remove it?

5

Can you share

cat /etc/fstab
6 
# You can use "dietpi-drive_manager" to setup mounts.
# NB: It overwrites and re-creates physical drive mount entries on use.
#----------------------------------------------------------------
# NETWORK
#----------------------------------------------------------------
192.168.1.214:/mnt/MyBook /mnt/MyBook nfs nofail,noauto,x-systemd.automount

#----------------------------------------------------------------
# TMPFS
#----------------------------------------------------------------
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs size=1922M,noatime,lazytime,nodev,nosuid,mode=1777
tmpfs /var/log tmpfs size=50M,noatime,lazytime,nodev,nosuid

#----------------------------------------------------------------
# MISC: ecryptfs, vboxsf, glusterfs, mergerfs, bind, Btrfs subvolume
#----------------------------------------------------------------


#----------------------------------------------------------------
# SWAP SPACE
#----------------------------------------------------------------


#----------------------------------------------------------------
# PHYSICAL DRIVES
#----------------------------------------------------------------
PARTUUID=c06c5cdf-02 / ext4 noatime,lazytime,rw 0 1
PARTUUID=c06c5cdf-01 /boot vfat noatime,lazytime,rw 0 2
UUID=94962338-38f4-4eff-a4ee-df925537be67 /mnt/offsite ext4 noatime,lazytime,rw,nofail,noauto,x-systemd.automount

does look like its trying to connect the network drive i had set up when it was at my house.

7

Try to remove that line if not needed

8

Removed the line but still runs slow.

9

Did you reboot afterwards?

10

no, now its back to normal!

thank you.