# Algorithms in use and low performance nodes

**URL:** https://forum.syncthing.net/t/algorithms-in-use-and-low-performance-nodes/8862
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**Created:** [December 25, 2016, 4:27pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/algorithms-in-use-and-low-performance-nodes/8862 "2016-12-25T16:27:09Z")
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### Author: ![Alex](https://forum.syncthing.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/db5fbb/32.png) [@Alex](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/Alex)
#### Post date: [December 25, 2016, 10:34pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/algorithms-in-use-and-low-performance-nodes/8862/6 "2016-12-25T22:34:40Z")

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I would say it is quite linear with the size of your synced folders (and the amount of files, a lot of small files need longer than a few big ones). I have almost 100GB on a pi 1 and it works, never saw any deadlocks due to it being too slow, only some when there was a real bug 😃

If you add a lot of stuff at once you may run out of RAM (at least someone did here [Huge RAM usage (2GB+) on synology DS1513+](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/huge-ram-usage-2gb-on-synology-ds1513/8845)) but otherwise I don’t see any problems.

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