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+--- Thread: How can I troubleshoot the slowness? (/t-how-can-i-troubleshoot-the-slowness)
How can I troubleshoot the slowness? - RelatableQuery - 2025-04-30
JellyFin is running in a docker container on my Synology Nas. I consume it though either the web interface, an andorid app or the JellyFin for Kodi addon.
In all three instances browsing is very sluggish. The Web UI takes 10-20 seconds to load, in Kodi it could take 30 seconds to show the content, etc.
Once the media starts playing there are zero issues.
Am I just impatient and spoiled by using a local library on Kodi, or are there some tweaks I can make to speed things up?
RE: How can I troubleshoot the slowness? - bitmap - 2025-04-30
Local or remote when accessing? Is there a difference in speed between the two when you access in-network vs. external? Generally a faster internal drive where Jellyfin is installed (i.e., not a HDD) will lead to faster loading and navigation. Ideally media is on HDDs while your Jellyfin install is on an SSD or NVME.
RE: How can I troubleshoot the slowness? - RelatableQuery - 2025-05-05
This is local only. I never access jallyfin outside the house. Would installing jellyfin to an SSD as opposed to HDD make a difference? It's currently running in a docker containers on whatever RAID setup Synology set up for my 3 HDDs.
RE: How can I troubleshoot the slowness? - bitmap - 2025-05-05
Yes an SSD will absolutely make a difference. however, those times are pretty high so it may not be a panacea for your issues. Even on crap internet with a solid signal it only takes several seconds for my home page to load when I'm remote. As for local/networked storage: there will always be a difference (read: increase in latency) when moving from locally-attached storage to network-attached storage. And with Kodi, it generally loads up a file index rather than a "streaming" experience.
You can post your Jellyfin log to privatebin.net if you want help taking a look, but it doesn't sound like errors are the issue. One more question: are your server (i.e., your NAS) and clients using WiFi?
RE: How can I troubleshoot the slowness? - deleuze - 2025-08-18
Hijacking this thread since I have the same issues.
Running jellyfin on unraid. Appdata is on a nvme.
AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-Core @ 3600 MHz and 64GB ram.
Transcoding using a Quadro P2200.
The playback is always fine. But the interface is sluggish and slow. It's like posters and images that loads are 3MB each.
I tried one of those servers that people announce on r/jellyfinshares and the difference was astonishing. Theirs were super fast. Mine, from the room next door is slow.
It doesn't matter if I run the client from my desktop, my phone or my tv.,
Would very much appreciate any ideas on how to make the interface faster!
My logs:
https://privatebin.net/?90d4174c690b7287#7Ts64S31Q77PpeEVJX4sL7WP6ucnSejwoSmuUyUHHWfa
RE: How can I troubleshoot the slowness? - toytown - 2025-08-18
(2025-08-18, 10:37 AM)deleuze Wrote: The playback is always fine. But the interface is sluggish and slow. It's like posters and images that loads are 3MB each.
I mentioned this elsewhere, but i think its a bug in their cache management. I have my jellyfin installed on an NVMe and by default it caches the images on exactly the same drive (wasting a further 15GB) it then also caches the downloaded images and resaves them at 100% quality for the cache, meaning most images end up bigger than the downloaded versions, sometimes the difference is 2MB original and 15MB for the cached image.