Syncing between two nodes always stuck at 0%

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I have a setup with three nodes, I’ll call them A B and C for now.

node A is a Mint linux labtop

node B is a rasperry pi running raspian, this stays at my house all the time

node C is an older Mint linux labtop

On all three, syncthing is installed from your package repo and I update regularly (none are on a version less than 12.17).

I am getting the following behaviour:

Nodes A and B sync happily both inside and outside my network

Nodes C and A sync happily both inside and outside my network

Syncing between node C and node B is always stuck at 0%

Can anyone suggest possible reasons for this or how I might go about debugging the issue?

Thanks!

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Are they set to share the same set of folders? Do they connect to each other successfully? Screenshots of how it actually looks?

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Sorry for the v slow reply.

They are set to share some of the same folders, the main one being ‘default’. I’ve attached a couple of screenshots below:

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They seem to connect successfully, I can provide more information if you tell me exactly what would be useful.

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Do you have rate limiting enabled by any chance? It seems that one of the devices pretty much can’t talk to the other one, but that’s due to some network/OS problem, not syncthing.

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Well, as far as I can tell I don’t think so. Here’s a screenshot of my settings:

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It’s odd that a machine with an identical OS can connect fine, and I see the same issue both inside and outside my network though.

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I have the same problem - I guess.

Node A is my phone (Android).

Node B is a laptop running Debian.

Node C is an Intel NUC running Kodibuntu.

I use syncthing to have my photos on all these nodes. Sync between A and B works okay but when I start the nuc the laptop shows 75%(phone), nuc shows 50%(phone) and my phone shows 100% for the folder.

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Is either of the sides memory or cpu starved?

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In my case, I don’t think so since syncing works fine between the two laptops, and between one of the laptops and the pi.

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I’d use iperf or something to benchmark the network performance, so see what’s up.

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And check CPU usage using top on the Pi. I’ve seen reports of slow devices churning “something” for minutes after connected before starting any activity…

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So I checked CPU usage using top on the pi while the syncing is stuck at 0%. There’s no significant usage. I’ve never used iperf (don’t know anything about it), so I’ll be a bit longer before I can return with any info based on this.

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Well, I discovered the problem in my case. I hadn’t added the laptop which wouldn’t sync as a device in the folders on the pi. Duh.

Sorry for the noise.

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