I recently decided to force myself to actually learn FreeCad. I’ve tried on and off for the past two years but just couldn’t get along with the UI and workflow…well, now I’m giving it an honest shot, and after a few weeks of misery, it is getting better.
But my laptop is not particularly powerful, and I frequently have performance issues when working with imported step-files. Lo and behold, you can run FreeCad in docker, so I can use my server which is significantly more powerful and just access via browser.
The catch is, it seems to run even worse than on my laptop. I can also see that it actually doesn’t use much of the available power of the server. Does anyone have experience with setting up a docker compose for FreeCad? I’ve looked at the docs and my GPU should be passed through and I’ve also allocated 32GB ram to the container. But it doesn’t actually use it it seems.


It’s gigabit WiFi, latency to server is something like 5ms, and disk i/o and bandwidth barely even register above 1% on my laptop…the bottleneck is not network or the laptop.
Okay - then everything is working fine. You’ve ruled out all of your options.