On 11/10/2011 17:43, James Tait wrote:
On 11/10/11 14:27, Simon Greenwood wrote:
As far as I remember, synching isn't simultaneous and there is a polling
interval, which I think is ten minutes. I'm sure James will be able to
confirm that.
I actually work on the server side, specifically the web interface,
and know embarrassingly little about the desktop client.
I do know at a fairly high level, though, that the desktop client
maintains a connection to the Ubuntu One servers and monitors
synchronised directories for changes.
Those changes are then synchronised on the server (hence they appear
instantaneously in the web interface) and a signal is sent to all
connected clients, causing them to download the updated files. You
can see all this in your syncdaemon log in $HOME/.cache/ubuntuone/log
or in the syncdaemon source code, if you're so inclined.
There are lots of reasons why the updates might not be happening as
quickly as expected, including network flakiness, network traffic or
system load at either end or in between, server updates, service
outages....
As a test, I created a file on my Natty desktop in a folder I have
shared with my wife and it appeared on her desktop within a few
minutes of resuming from suspend.
JT
Thanks for that information - its gone a long way to answering my questions.
On an aside, do you know if there are any plans to introduce LAN
synching, like Dropbox? Now that IS instantaneous between different
machines...
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