I've got a 10Gbit connection, and speed tests show between 6 and 8Gbps from my machine with an RTX 4090 in it. When Salad is transferring data, it's almost exactly flat at 400Mbps. Any way to get this increased? I spend like 5 minutes downloading a job at 400 Mbps, which could be 10x faster...
#What's throttling my Salad bandwidth?
lapis light
lime junco
That 10gbps isn't to absolutely everywhere - There will always be bottlenecks in various places, such as Salad's container registry CDNs, and the behind the scenes routing that goes on between you and said CDNs.
I've got a 1gbps connection, but it's kinda rare to see it get up to the full 1gbps. Most of the time, I'll see it downloading at somewhere below that maximum speed.
As you've confirmed the PC is capable of downloading at 6-8gbps, I'm not sure if there's really anything that can be done on your end to improve the speeds. I'd say to keep an eye on it to see how it fluctuates over time.
lapis light
I'm aware that transfers only work at the slowest link in the chain. I can sustain several gigabits to most large infrastructure (GCS, AWS, Azure), and I'm not sure where Salad's services are based (not us-East-1 since we not affected by AWS's outage there yesterday for jobs). The 400Mbit is too flatline to be a link congestion issue and looks like it's intentionally traffic shaped.
I'll just get an eye on it. Thanks for the response.
floral dew
Yeah salad's provider pipes are just slow (probably cheap). Nothing else to do
400mbit is actually good for salad, wait till you get <100mbps for 20 mins on some days. 🙂