[STEAM CLIENT] Downloads speed on Ubuntu

[loisgomez]

Hi
I dont know if this is intented but downloads speeds on my linux clients are much less stable than on windows, they go up and down all the time.
Ive seen this beahaviour for a while now.
Im using the same server location on both windows and linux machines and ive seen it on my desktop and on my laptop, dont think its hardware related.

[johndrinkwater]

Do you have a limit (even set to 10MB/s) set in the Downloads settings tab? Have noticed when the rate limiter is set it fluctuates more.

[loisgomez]

No, I dont.
Also i should add i started noticing it about 2/3 months or so ago, it was fine on the first steam for linux betas.

Those screenshot are from my desktop pc on win7 vs Ubuntu 13.04, but im noticing the same issue on my laptop running archlinux.

[caranha]

I am facing the same problem as described here. Starting about a few weeks ago, I haven't been able to download any games through the Steam Linux client.

At first I got some weird errors where the installation process would complete, but no files would have been downloaded (playing these games would get a "no executable" message). Deleting and reinstalling the games sometimes worked.

Since about last week I'm now getting "connection timeout" errors when trying to install or update games.

It is worth noting that these errors happens only when trying to install or update any games. Other network functions, such as chatting, playing games, and using the store, seem to be working as far as I have tested.

I have also a Windows partition on the same machine, using the same network, and I can't reproduce these problems on the Steam Client there.

[MrSchism]

I have/had this problem, but was mostly seeing it with a wifi chipset that was a bit unstable itself (at least on Linux). I switched and I see it less, but it's good to know that it's not just the hardware I was using.

[Pihpe]

I am having exactly the same problem. While downloading Team Fortress 2, the speed fluctuates a lot. This doesn't happen when I'm on Windows -side. I've even done a fresh install of Mint 15 (for different reasons than this, though :), but it's not helping. I've attached a screenshot about the problem to my post. On Windows, it stays at a constant 30-40MB/s, Linux side it's everything between that and 0. The transfer limit in the Steam settings is disabled completely.

[nattyebola]

same problem for me, with my optical fiber 100MB connection.
tryed with linux steam, linux steamcmd :a near 0B/s download rate.
tryed whith windows7 : full speed

i'm on ubuntu 13.04 64bit,

[Mailaender]

Same problem for me. Support redirected me to the FAQ and I tried everything on https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=9498-WPDF-3220 without any luck. Deleting the BLOB file, checked router ports (even tried exposed hosts), steam -tcp, switching content mirrors, checking/unchecking every download related setting etc. nothing worked. However it downloads without any problems on Windows where I get good speeds, but just few Bytes/s on Linux rendering the whole client unusable. :(

I am using KDE 4.12 NetworkManager version 0.9.0.10 (nm 20131128) on openSUSE 13.1 with the wlp3s0 module. No other program has any problems reaching top speed so I am really sure this is a bug on your side.

[loisgomez]

This is still an issue on Linux clients =/ Are we getting treated as second class citizens and servers limit our bandwith? Because it was fine on first betas and now it seems like this issue has been around for a long time.

[Tele42]

@bertogs there was mention somewhere else on this issue tracker that there may be overly aggressive disk syncing which could be bogging down the steam client.

[Mailaender]

If it helps, I have an SSD hard drive. Downloads are stable on Windows and often annoyingly slow on Linux.

[sanguivor]

This is most likely issue 3401. See my post on the Steam for Linux community forum for a workaround.

[loisgomez]

sanguivor workaround seems to have mostly mitigated the issue for me

[MrSchism]

I'm not sure if it's the entirety of the issue (haven't been able to confirm over the long-term), but it is definitely a significant contributor.

[derlaft]

The same problem here. Download is extremely slow, jumps by hills as on screenshots above. Changing download server to US (which are on the other side of the world) slightly helps, but Steam still can't use the whole internet channell.

SSD here too.

[loisgomez]

It looks like my windows installation is suffering from this same issue as today patch

[kisak-valve]

Hello, is anyone seeing this behavior on an up to date system?

[nh2]

That's what it looks like for me today:

Still doesn't download things in one go, but it's not clear if that's intended or not, as there is disk activity going on and it's probably also decompressing or something similar.

At least the issue that originally downloads slowed down logarithmically to a crawl seems fixed now.

[kisak-valve]

Hello @nh2, can you take a look at ~/.steam/steam/logs/content_log.txt and check for lines that contain Received 0 (Invalid) HTTP response for depot in them after seeing the download behavior in your image. I suspect that there is a server-side issue going on here and causing 1 minute connection timeouts, which may occur once per depot (and there regularly are multiple depots used with a steam game on linux).

If you do find that kind of message in the log, then we should track that issue in a separate issue report.

[kisak-valve]

Closing as the original issue appears to have been resolved.