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by knz_ 1867 days ago
Even worse if you're trying to sync a file that might be actively changed while syncing - syncthing will reread the entire file as soon as only a few kilobytes are changed. On a file >10GiB this quickly leads to a death spiral of IO and CPU starvation.
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That's why I run a custom backup script every 5 minutes to simply rsync my data over instead of realtime syncing.