Hello, I have an Ubuntu server 20.04. I began with installing the desktop version of Photostructure on it (The server has a GUI (Cinnamon)). All was well, sync OK etc. We like Photostructure very much.
After this, I installed the server (Node) version. About six times. At first via your manual, with a photostructure user, after that with several variations, like using a different user. This will simply not work. Syncing is always very slow and does not come further than 177 assets or so from 58500+ files , after two days.
After these exercises, the desktop version does not start either, with the message “Can’t restart sync, failure rate is too high”
So I am stuck both ways. What to do? To begin with, uninstall the server version?
Welcome to PhotoStructure, @gijsh ! Apologies for the glitches.
PhotoStructure does support switching between desktop and server versions, but they have to be the same version. Upgrades are automatic, but downgrades are not.
I suspect you installed the v1.1.0 desktop edition, and then the v2023.12 alpha server build.
Update: In the meantime installed once more Desktop version (2023.12.0-alpha.7). It works, but very slow: 796 assets from 1,892 image files and 62 video files , 5800+ files available, uptime 22 hours, 19 minutes.
Possible explanation: CPUI am working on: CPU (2 × Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU G1840 @ 2.80GHz) overload very often more than 100%. Strange, because there is not much other activity on the server.
The overloading could be due to ffmpeg – the next release will force ffmpeg to always run with only one thread, which should reduce CPU overscheduling. Debug logs would say if this was the case, though.