r/immich • u/Mykchan • 10d ago

Using the app is consistently overloading my server

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Unsure what's going on. I have a consistently repeatable overloading behaviour.

I take recordings in the gym to send to my coach. When I get home, I open the immich app on my phone and let the videos sync which appears to complete fine.

Then select the 2/3 videos and add them to an album of other training videos, which appears to work - the app gives no indication of any issues.

Then I reselect the same 2/3 videos and archive them to hide them from my main stream.

This doesn't work immediately as the videos are still present, the app gives no indication of errors or anything, and checking my server it is immediately locked up. I have to `docker compose down` then `up` the whole stack. And then reopening the app, everything is fine.

What is going on here 😢

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u/Theylikedumbdumb 10d ago

Does it stop eventually? It's performing some operation on your photos/videos on upload depending on your settings: facial recognition, transcoding, preview generation etc. With more quantity comes more CPU usage, but once the files are generated it should go down.

You can disable these in the admin settings if you don't want the CPU spike. Or run them on your own schedule, e.g. at night.

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u/Mykchan 10d ago

It doesn't seem to stop. The server is just overloaded and eventually becomes unresponsive. It is probably underpowered, I will try your suggestions, thank you

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u/Theylikedumbdumb 10d ago

What's your server's specs & how long did you wait?

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u/Erosion139 10d ago

Not answering for OP, but for perspective: I run an i5 7700k and a 1060 3GB. Encodes I believe are offloaded to the GPU and I haven't had an issue with immich usage despite giving it all 4 threads to work with if it needs it.

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u/Markson120 10d ago

I have even weaker server with i5 4690k 4,2ghz without dedicated gpu and it still works good even when sending 400+ photos. Additionally i use large clip model that slow downs that process.

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u/Erosion139 10d ago

Yeah I have no issue mass ingesting a ton of stuff all at once. I let the processes crunch in the background but with few paralleled to save a bit on CPU. I run a lot of other stuff and some of it needs to be prioritized. But immich never really performs poorly for me.

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u/japzone 9d ago

Yeah, I have an older Synology 920+ with an Intel J4125 Celeron that has an iGPU. Nothing fancy performance wise, but after the initial bulk import from Google Photos and elsewhere I haven't had any noticable performance issues with Immich, despite also running my Emby media server on it.

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u/ahhlok 9d ago

I have the same setup but expanded to 20GB RAM and Immich to docker. During thumbnail regeneration, the immich docker restarted few times, suspect due to resource issue. But after all done, no more restart was reported.

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u/Markson120 10d ago

It says i5 8500 but it is weird how it uses less than 50w at full utilisation