CPU upgrade to speed up nextcloud + collabora?

drRodneyMcKay · June 19

I have a NAS running intel core i5 6500 with 24 GB RAM.
Nextcloud is not as smooth as i would like it to be. Would throwing more RAM at it would solve the issue? Or does it make sense to upgrade to i7 7700?

But this is weird, I have around 10GB indicated free RAM, and CPU usage also doesn't seem too high

Kilrah · June 19

Most likely not, to have a fast NC what matters is usually more having a good DB, using Redis for caching and having files on SSDs.

So how's your stuff set up OS / storage / software-wise?

What are the operations that are slow?

drRodneyMcKay · June 19

I am running TrueNAS, my app dataset lives on a sata ssd. I am running the nextcloud abd collabora from the default repository of truenas, with the default configs

Bersella AI · June 19

Throwing more RAM would make negligible differences, since bottlenecks are more likely due to I/O including:

The official Nextcloud image uses Apache, a slower Web agent, and defaults to SQLite, performing slower than MariaDB or PostgreSQL, as the database. You may switch to the LinuxServer.io image and another database for better performance.
A SATA SSD is inferior to PCIe/NVMe ones in performance, especially in random performance. You may switch to an M.2 NVMe SSD, e.g. tiny and cheap sticks of Optane 16 GB, and they would serve containers way better.
There may be issues with networking including insufficient link speeds (slower than GbE, happens with slower ports or broken cables/connectors), using Wi-Fi instead of cables, etc. I suggest this be checked out first, then the server itself.