Extremely slow on Mac M1

[rmcrys]

Hi everybody, I have a Mac Mini M1 and several windows laptops. The FFS since the beginning is extremely slow on my Mac mini M1!

All devices are connected via Wi-Fi 5 GHz (not at the same time) to the router, that is connected via Ethernet Gigabit with my Zyxel NAS.
- on Windows laptops (W10 or W11, Core-M or Intel 8th gen CPUs) the same files sync at ~35 up to 90 MBps
- on my Mac Mini M1 (from the start with Mac OS 11 up to now Mac OS 12.2.1) from ~3.0 up to 7.0 MBps ...

FFS on all devices with the same settings.

I also tried using Ethernet (1 Gbps) on the Mac mini M1 and using another router (from Vodafone's router to a TP-LINK Gigabit brand new) and I have absolutely no changes. I also notice that using FFS on Windows uses very low resources; using FFS on my Mac uses a lot of resources / CPU and the Mac crawls down quite a bit. My Mac is much more powerful than my Surface Go 2 (Core M) and nevertheless with FFS is slower...

EDIT: I just copied the files manually from the Mac M1 to the NAS (not over FFS) and it copied at ~40 MBps. So it is an issue with FFS...

Any solution?

[xCSxXenon]

Running any AntiVirus or "cleaners" or "optimizers" or "Anti-tracking" or literally anything that claims to speed up and optimize your Mac or "protect you". These type of programs are incredibly manipulative and have caused problems like this before, so I'm just curious about it. Were you copying the same files manually? Different sets of files will behave differently based on # of files and file sizes.

[rmcrys]

# I have no such apps ( AntiVirus or "cleaners" or "optimizers" or "Anti-tracking" ) on my Mac. Only office and multimedia editors.

# I copied manually vs ffs the exact same folders and files (which are not many but rather big with 500 MB up to 5 GB each).

It only happens with ffs on Mac (is there an M1 optimized version?). If I use Finder (Mac file manager) I copy the files at normal rate...

[xCSxXenon]

Interesting. The MAC OS version just works with M1 as far as I am aware. It obviously has something to do with CPU. I wonder if it is thermal throttling, but why would FFS cause that? What does Activity Monitor say about CPU usage when using FFS?

[rmcrys]

The MAC OS version just works with M1 as far as I am aware. [...] What does Activity Monitor say about CPU usage when using FFS?

If FFS works under Rosetta, it may have to do with such translation that may induce in any limitation. If there was an M1 version, then I could test it out (why no ARM/M1 version? It would be great to have native windows arm and Mac arm). ATM I'm not where my Mac is, so I cannot test with the Activity Monitor.

[xCSxXenon]

Looks like there are many other requests for an ARM version. It must be emulated currently

[rmcrys]

Looks like there are many other requests for an ARM version. It must be emulated currently

👍 yes, I see no reason not to exist one, even for Android.

- I use a lot Samsung DeX, FFS would be fantastic
- a lot of Mac s M1 based and on March e more with m2
- ARM on windows is taking off

I hope FFS comes soon as native arm

[Zenju]

FFS on macOS ships as a "universal binary" including a native ARM64 binary. No need to configure. The OS selects the correct binary depending on whether your're running ARM64 or Intel.
viewtopic.php?t=7997

[rmcrys]

FFS on macOS ships as a "universal binary" including a native ARM64 binary. No need to configure. The OS selects the correct binary depending on whether your're running ARM64 or Intel.
viewtopic.php?t=7997

I'll look into it as I updated from an x86 installed (paid) version to the newest version all (and still have some issues with slow sync)