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PSA: If the first Smart Search in Immich takes a while (self.selfhosted)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by avidamoeba to c/[email protected]

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Your ML model cache volume is getting blown up during restart and the model is being re-downloaded during the first search post-restart. Either set it to a path somewhere on your storage, or ensure you're not blowing up the dynamic volume upon restart.

In my case I changed this:

  immich-machine-learning:
    ...
    volumes:
      - model-cache:/cache

To that:

  immich-machine-learning:
    ...
    volumes:
      - ./cache:/cache

I no longer have to wait uncomfortably long when I'm trying to show off Smart Search to a friend, or just need a meme pronto.

That'll be all.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (9 children)

Doing a volume like the default Immich docker-compose uses should work fine, even through restarts. I'm not sure why your setup is blowing up the volume.

Normally volumes are only removed if there is no running container associated with it, and you manually run docker volume prune

[–] avidamoeba 3 points 3 days ago (8 children)

Because I clean everything up that's not explicitly on disk on restart:

[Unit]
Description=Immich in Docker
After=docker.service 
Requires=docker.service

[Service]
TimeoutStartSec=0

WorkingDirectory=/opt/immich-docker

ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/docker compose kill --remove-orphans
ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/docker compose down --remove-orphans
ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/docker compose rm -f -s -v
ExecStartPre=-/usr/bin/docker compose pull
ExecStart=/usr/bin/docker compose up

Restart=always
RestartSec=30

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Wow, you pull new images every time you boot up? Coming from a mindset of having rock solid stability, this scares me. You're living your life on the edge my friend. I wish I could do that.

[–] avidamoeba 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I use a fixed tag. 😂 It's more a simple way to update. Change the tag in SaltStack, apply config, service is restarted, new tag is pulled. If the tag doesn't change, the pull is a noop.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Ahh, calmed me down. Never thought of doing anything like you're doing it here, but I do like it.

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