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What's wrong with Nextcloud, and why is it slow/clunky? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I hear people say that about Nextcloud often, which is part of why I haven't bothered setting it up yet.

Is there a technical reason why it's slow and clunky? Any problematic choices with how it was built?

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 8 months ago (17 children)

It needs some tweaks to be snappy. The defaults are really bad.

change database from SQLite to a proper database like MySQL or Postgres, and configure the database server to use your memory fully
increase the PHP memory limit from the default (128M on many distros) to >1G, the more the better
install APCu in-memory cache for PHP
add Redis as additional cache
turn off the antivirus extension, if installed (ClamAV is useless)
use http/2 on Apache/nginx to increase performance with multiple connections

https://docbot.onetwoseven.one/services/nextcloud/

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Thank you for these suggestions. But I have a few questions.

How can I do the 2nd and 3rd point if I am using docker/podman containers?

Why is ClamAV useless?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This has me curious, not to derail the topic, but I always hear that ClamAV is the best way to go for Linux. Is there a free solution that you would recommend in place of it?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I think the best solution is to use good internet hygiene

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