High disk usage (size in iops) for log purpose

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Operating system

Windows

Joplin version

3.3.12

Desktop version info

Not about the app

Sync target

Joplin Server

What issue do you have?

Lastest docker server installed (3.3.13) on DSM synology.

Similar tickets have been opened in the past: issues 45012 45067
"Process shared items" cron task is executed every 10 seconds and creates 10 lines of log each time.

It creates a lot of log data, 26,8MB of data once exported in csv for 3 days.

It is increasing hardrive usage most than any other tasks on my DS416Play (4 hard drives SHR). Refer the screenshot for IOPS monitoring.

There is no option to reduce / remove log details. Do I miss something into the server setup ?

Trying to disable the tasks, it creates log too to warn that the task is not executed because the cron job is disabled

Is there any way to reduce log level ?

Thanks !

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Here is the disk iops metrics:

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Here is the 3 days log file
joplin-server.csv.zip (1.1 MB)

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The thing is that Joplin Server is not really optimised for low traffic websites. For high traffic ones, the interval approach is best because there's always data to process, but if the site is not used much it's indeed not ideal.

On the other hand, supporting low traffic websites at this level of optimisation is not really an objective at this point, especially when it would make things a lot more complex.

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Thank you very much for this explaination. It makes sense.

Have a good day.

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If someone is experiencing the same for low traffic home usage, if your home server supports WebDAV, I strongly encourage you to use it over the server container.