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Sync thread count grows until resources run out

A sync process running on a network-mounted data directory keeps creating threads during a scan until the server runs out of resources.

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5 public reports · first reported 9 September 2026 · last reported 13 September 2026

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What's going wrong

A user running a sync program on a shared network-mounted data directory saw the number of threads grow without end during a directory scan, reaching several thousand.

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