# heavy load on folder scan
**URL:** https://forum.syncthing.net/t/heavy-load-on-folder-scan/13903
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [October 11, 2019, 2:36pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/heavy-load-on-folder-scan/13903 "2019-10-11T14:36:29Z")
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### Author:  [@tonirug](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/tonirug)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2019, 2:36pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/heavy-load-on-folder-scan/13903/1 "2019-10-11T14:36:29Z")
Since a few days folder scans take too long. Also, memory and CPU usage (over 80%) have grown. Even though it is a slow device, it always worked fine and folder scans always took a reasonable time to complete. The server syncs about 600.000 files in 38 folders (~500 GB). I have tried to downgrade to version 1.2.2, but the issue persists. This way the server is unusable. Could the conversion to ‘large’ database be the cause? There has been no change in the syncthing’s configuration in the last weeks, just the upgrade to version 1.3.0. Current version is v1.2.2, Linux (32 bit) Any idea or suggestion to investigate the issue will be appreciated. Thanks in advance
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### Author:  [@ProactiveServices](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/ProactiveServices)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2019, 4:39pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/heavy-load-on-folder-scan/13903/2 "2019-10-11T16:39:58Z")
Without any logs - preferably those from the first start-up when this happened - nobody can really help. Are these initial scans (read: hashing) or have those been performed? How many folders are simultaneously scanning?
You say the scans used to take a “reasonable” time, but don’t say what that was, or how long they take now.
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### Author:  [@uok](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/uok)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2019, 8:20am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/heavy-load-on-folder-scan/13903/3 "2019-10-12T08:20:38Z")
Since you are also using 32bit you also may be affected by the database setting:
> [@Many small LDB files with database tuning](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/many-small-ldb-files-with-database-tuning/13842):
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> Syncthing v1.3.0 has introduced a database tuning enhancement. This is not a fast machine (dual core and spinning HDD) so I’m used to slow scan times - but after 5 hours Syncthing still has not finished scanning. I noticed that there are 1000s of very small .ldb files (~ 300 bytes) and every second 20 or more are created. I don’t know how this .ldb thing works and if these files are just temporary. The folder that is currently scanned has lots of small files, maybe this is the reason? Or is it…
and our great devs have already implemented a fix for the next version
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> \### Purpose
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> Avoid apparent issues with large db settings on 32 bit archs.
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> …(This is probably a goleveldb bug but I don't have the time/inclination to troubleshoot it.)
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> \### Testing
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> ⁉️
until then you need to set it manually to “small” after updating to v1.3
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### Author:  [@tonirug](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/tonirug)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2019, 4:37pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/heavy-load-on-folder-scan/13903/4 "2019-10-12T16:37:12Z")
By reasonable I meant 2 minutes for a folder with about 19000 files against 40 minutes. This for just one folder scanning. In case of more folders scans at the same time the server would be unusable. Anyway, I upgraded again to v1.3.0, set Database Tuning to ‘small’ and restarted. Now the scan times are again acceptable. Furthermore, I set the rescan time to 1 day (it was 1 hour) for all folders in order to limit the possibility of simultaneous rescans.
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### Author:  [@tonirug](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/tonirug)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2019, 4:43pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/heavy-load-on-folder-scan/13903/5 "2019-10-12T16:43:59Z")
Thanks for your suggestions, which I followed (see above message). I also have more than 100000 .ldb in the db folder. I don’t know if a -reset-database would help to improve performance.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 11, 2019, 4:44pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/heavy-load-on-folder-scan/13903/6 "2019-11-11T16:44:04Z")
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