Really slow model downloads... More than ARGOS_DEBUG=1?

[IngwiePhoenix]

Hello!

Coming here after fighting with LibreTranslate for hours and attempting to figure out why or what is causing startup to be incredibly slow. Like, insanely so. In my search, I came across this project here as a dependency and within the Settings.md, I got to find ARGOS_DEBUG=1.

But...even so, and with a little bit of hacking and smacking an installation together under uv/uvx, I get to this:

PS C:\Users\Ingwie Phoenix> $env:ARGOS_DEBUG=1
PS C:\Users\Ingwie Phoenix> & "C:\Users\Ingwie Phoenix\AppData\Roaming\uv\tools\argostranslate\Scripts\python.exe" "C:\Users\Ingwie Phoenix\AppData\Roaming\uv\tools\argostranslate\Scripts\argospm" install translate-en_de
('Get https://argos-net.com/v1/translate-en_de-1_9.argosmodel',)

...and this is the state since two hours. That shouldn't be the problem, because I am on a legit 600/300mbit/s up/down link (FTTH).

Any other methods to "debug" this?

I have been trying on...

• Windows, Ryzen 9 3900X, py3.11.x, x86_64
• Linux, Debian 12 (Armbian), RockChip RK3588 (armv8/aarch64), Docker image (both from Docker hub and self built)
• Linux, Ubuntu 24.04, 4 vCPU cores of an Ampere CPU (hoster wouldn't say which skew) (aarch64), Docker with image from hub and self built

That last node was the most successful but with 4c/4t, and 8GB RAM and a small remaining rootfs storage, I did only run it there to see if it worked or not.

Thanks in advance!

Kind regards,
Ingwie

[simplylu]

Same here, tried it on the below devices.

• Linux, Ubuntu 24.04, 1x Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU ES-2640 v3 @ 2.60GHz, 16 GB RAM, py 3.12.4
• Linux, Manjaro, 8x Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1035G1, 16GB RAM, py 3.12.4
• Linux, EndeavourOS 2024.01.25, 12x Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-8950HK CPU @ 2.90GHz , 64GB RAM, py 3.12.7

export ARGOS_DEBUG=1; argospm install translate-nl_en results in a similar error as the OP stated: ('Get https://argos-net.com/v1/translate-nl_en-1_8.argosmodel',)

Library version is 1.9.6.

BR;
Lu