Polling is the only way to make it work with arbitrary storage types;
you cannot run any software on S3, FTP, ....

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Fastguy <email address hidden> wrote:
> I think polling is not good, maybe a future plan could be to write the
> "server" component, so each can "push" each other the changes? If a
> change on client happens, it notifies the server, if a change on server
> happens (from another client), server pushes the notification to the
> client and client re-syncs.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/797823
>
> Title:
>  High data transfer and cpu activity while idling
>
> Status in Syncany:
>  Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
>  After having uploaded about 200mb from my syncany folder to a remote
>  (amazon s3, encrypted) location and restarting syncany, it produces a
>  lot of download traffic (about 250kb/s, nearly all the bandwidth of my
>  DSL connection) and some cpu activity.
>
>  $ uname -a
>  Linux jo-notebook 2.6.38-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Jun 6 22:49:29 CEST 2011 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU M 620 @ 2.67GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
>
>  $ java -version
>  java version "1.6.0_22"
>  OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.10.2) (ArchLinux-6.b22_1.10.2-1-x86_64)
>  OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 19.0-b09, mixed mode)
>
>  $ python --version
>  Python 3.2
>
>  Syncany is repeating the following terminal output:
>
>  FO     : 4. No local changes. Skipping step upload.
>  11-06-15 12:49:03 | jo-notebook | RemoteWatcher        | RemoteWatcher      | INFO     : DONE WITH PERIODIC UPDATE CHECK ...
>  11-06-15 12:49:06 | jo-notebook | RemoteWatcher        | RemoteWatcher      | INFO     : STARTING PERIODIC UPDATE CHECK ...
>  11-06-15 12:49:07 | jo-notebook | PythonScript         | TrayServRead       | INFO     : time 1308156547.44 - last req 1308156543.01 > timeout 6
>  11-06-15 12:49:08 | jo-notebook | LinuxNativeClient    | NativeNOPThread    | INFO     : Connected to native server on port 50,023
>  11-06-15 12:49:08 | jo-notebook | LinuxNativeClient    | NativeNOPThread    | INFO     : Sent request {"request":"NopRequest"}. Waiting for response ...
>  11-06-15 12:49:08 | jo-notebook | PythonScript         | TrayServRead       | INFO     : Client connected.
>  11-06-15 12:49:08 | jo-notebook | PythonScript         | TrayServRead       | INFO     : Received request: {"request":"NopRequest"}
>  11-06-15 12:49:08 | jo-notebook | LinuxNativeClient    | NativeNOPThread    | INFO     : Received response: null
>  11-06-15 12:49:08 | jo-notebook | PythonScript         | TrayServRead       | INFO     : Doing nothing. That's what I do best :-)
>  11-06-15 12:49:08 | jo-notebook | PythonScript         | TrayServRead       | INFO     : Sending response: OK
>  11-06-15 12:49:12 | jo-notebook | PythonScript         | TrayServRead       | INFO     : time 1308156552.45 - last req 1308156548.01 > timeout 6
>  11-06-15 12:49:12 | jo-notebook | RemoteWatcher        | RemoteWatcher      | INFO     : repository has not changed locally. No need to upload.
>  11-06-15 12:49:12 | jo-notebook | RemoteWatcher        | RemoteWatcher      | INFO     : 2. Downloading update lists ...
>  11-06-15 12:49:12 | jo-notebook | RemoteWatcher        | RemoteWatcher      | INFO     : 3a. Analyzing updates & looking for conflicts ...
>  11-06-15 12:49:12 | jo-notebook | RemoteWatcher        | RemoteWatcher      | INFO     : 3b. Updating client DB entries ...
>  11-06-15 12:49:12 | jo-notebook | RemoteWatcher        | RemoteWatcher      | INFO     : 4. No local changes. Skipping step upload.
>  11-06-15 12:49:13 | jo-notebook | LinuxNativeClient    | NativeNOPThread    | INFO     : Connected to native server on port 50,023
>  11-06-15 12:49:13 | jo-notebook | PythonScript         | TrayServRead       | INFO     : Client connected.
>  11-06-15 12:49:13 | jo-notebook | LinuxNativeClient    | NativeNOPThread    | INFO     : Sent request {"request":"NopRequest"}. Waiting for response ...
>  11-06-15 12:49:13 | jo-notebook | PythonScript         | TrayServRead       | INFO     : Received request: {"request":"NopRequest"}
>  11-06-15 12:49:13 | jo-notebook | LinuxNativeClient    | NativeNOPThread    | INFO     : Received response: null
>  11-06-15 12:49:13 | jo-notebook | PythonScript         | TrayServRead       | INFO     : Doing nothing. That's what I do best :-)
>  11-06-15 12:49:13 | jo-notebook | PythonScript         | TrayServRead       | INFO     : Sending response: OK
>  11-06-15 12:49:13 | jo-notebook | RemoteWatcher        | RemoteWatcher      | INFO     : DONE WITH PERIODIC UPDATE CHECK ...
>  11-06-15 12:49:16 | jo-notebook | RemoteWatcher        | RemoteWatcher      | INFO     : STARTING PERIODIC UPDATE CHECK ...
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