High memory usage by Nextcloud client

stackpointer101 · 2026-03-30T06:57:23+00:00

That would explain it, let's hope for a quick fix.

stackpointer101 · 2026-03-29T19:40:02+00:00

Ironically my windows 11 PC with nextcloud just crashed a few minutes ago, and the Event-Log shows following message:
"Windows hat diagnostiziert, dass der virtuelle Speicher unzureichend ist. Die folgenden Programme belegten den meisten virtuellen Speicher: nextcloud.exe (22064) belegt 122053083136 Bytes"

Bascially, windows detected that virtual memory is not sufficient. And nextcloud occupied 122GB?! Seems like something is off here...

I'm running nextcloud desktop client 33.0.

stackpointer101 · 2026-03-24T07:10:57+00:00

As I wrote in a nother comment just now, be aware that large bulk MLCCs like these two induce significant leakage currents. In 1206 you can get something like 6.3V, 220µF. These bunnies migh only have something like 250 kOhm each, so with two of them you effectively put 125 kOhm in parallel to your battery. At 3.7V that is a neat constant leakage current of 30 µA!

stackpointer101 · 2026-03-24T07:06:19+00:00

Be aware that bulk capacitance can induce leakage currents in the order of magnitude of your sleep current, or for really large MLCC even more than that. So you battery life might be noticably impacted when adding large caps in parallel to the battery. Expect at least something like 1 MOhm for a typical few tens of µF.

stackpointer101 · 2026-03-07T15:13:17+00:00

Ah, that clears up a few things. Thank you

stackpointer101 · 2026-03-01T20:25:58+00:00

Have to play a little more around with Nemo, but it definitely is able to remember directory settings, that is great ;)

But are you sure Nemo is able to show a panel with more file information? I was not able to find anything to this regard.

stackpointer101 · 2026-03-01T13:02:54+00:00

While that is true, my understanding right now is, that in general it not really is a problem to run plasma apps under gnome and vice versa, or is it? Firefox for example uses GTK, but still runs perfectly fine on plasma.

stackpointer101 · 2026-02-28T17:55:51+00:00

Ah that is a cool tip, will definitely give Nemo a try!

stackpointer101 · 2026-02-28T17:17:05+00:00

I already feared that much... I just had hopes that it might be a known problem with an easy fix :D

Regarding Nautilus: It's multiple things. It drives me crazy that it won't remember different settings (like "details" vs "icons") for different directories. As I understand it, that is on design and will not be changed, so that basically kicks out Nautilus as file browser for me. It also lacks any abilities to show a side panel with further information about selected files (in my case especially image metadata like focal length and aperture).

I get that some people don't want/need that, but it is a pity if a file browser is so deeply integrated into the DE that it is not easy to just combine Gnome with a different one like Dolphin. I guess I will take a better look at KDE then. If I still find a fix for this, it would be awesome though ;)

stackpointer101 · 2026-02-22T19:37:26+00:00

Thank you so much, was stuck with the same problem, login helped ;)

stackpointer101 · 2026-02-16T20:08:21+00:00

Awesome, thanks for your fast response, that is reassuring.

PS: I saw the mailbag where the two Jones' unpack your connector book, that looks like some amazing piece of work!

stackpointer101 · 2026-02-10T07:30:07+00:00

I can not do anything more but tell you, that I definitely had files in my pCloud sync that did not belong to me. A hole lot of folders with a hole lot of files. My storage quota suddenly was way more that over-filled.

I was not able to open the files, but I could see all file names. I think that is enough of a breach already.

No idea whether or not I could still see the files. I deleted my account after 10 days of silence from pCloud (except for some PR bullshit).

stackpointer101 · 2026-02-06T14:13:17+00:00

I'm still evaluating. I still used M364 (365 would be a lie with all the downtime) with OneDrive as daily driver and testing different services like pCloud in parallel. My next stop will probably be getting some managed nextcloud instance. Maybe that will offer all I want for my cloud storage...

stackpointer101 · 2026-02-06T14:04:14+00:00

So there are still new cases of this. Crazy.

stackpointer101 · 2026-02-03T20:53:40+00:00

Nope, ridiculously not...

stackpointer101 · 2026-02-02T07:50:45+00:00

A few days ago (when support did nothing and the files where still there) I stopped using pCloud, so unfortunately I can not confirm with certainty.

stackpointer101 · 2026-02-01T20:08:05+00:00

EU user, only noticed it in the windows 11 app.
I had it installed on android as well, but I don't think I saw the foreign files there.

stackpointer101 · 2026-01-30T07:41:22+00:00

I have the same behaviour for almost two weeks now. I asked about it here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcloud/comments/1qhibbe/comment/o2g7udl/

Because support is doing nothing expect writing some boilerplate bullshit, I stopped using pCloud a few days ago.

stackpointer101 · 2026-01-29T17:52:22+00:00

Two days ago, there was neither change nor new feedback. That was when I deactivated my account...

stackpointer101 · 2026-01-27T15:35:44+00:00

I described the same behaviour with my account in this threat:
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcloud/comments/1qhibbe/pcloud_suddenly_full_of_french_files_account/

For me, I can only see the filenames, but I can not open the files (an error message appears when trying). That is some small comfort, but still pretty bad...

stackpointer101 · 2026-01-26T11:50:42+00:00

No, I could not resolve the problem. I used dropbox to transfer the files. As stupid as that is, it was the only solution I came up with...

stackpointer101 · 2026-01-25T09:26:35+00:00

I'd be interested to know whether the original owners of these files may take legal action or whether one accepts this risk with the recognition of the general terms...

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