hey has your team ever seen prefect agents running

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hey < Jenny> has your team ever seen prefect agents running locally on a windows laptop stalling at the download code from storage phase It is a local process so trying to copy code from a local directory but it never completes The same code works on my ubuntu laptop We tried running the agent in a docker container as well but still stalls at the same step

Jenny · Answer

Let me check with the team on this one

Jenny · Answer

Double checking do you have the right filesystem package dependencies installed <https docs prefect io latest concepts filesystems filesystem package dependencies>

Nicholas Torba · Answer

if they are running the prefect agent locally on a windows laptop would they need any of these installed

Nicholas Torba · Answer

only place windows is referenced is smb but when the agent is running locally the flow isn t ubuntu basee

Nicholas Torba · Answer

based

Jenny · Answer

I guess I should ask my question a different way when you say download code from storage what storage are you using Can you share any error messages

Ameya · Answer

jumping in here as I m facing this issue just local file storage No error message the flow just never starts it always stays in pending

Jenny · Answer

Hmmm One of our engineers kindly spun up a windows VM to test and they can t reproduce

Jenny · Answer

Double checking here < Ameya> are you on 2 10 11 Want to make sure we re testing the right thing

Ameya · Answer

I was on 2 10 5 but I just upgraded and same issue

Ameya · Answer

I see the submitted run in the UI my local agent is checking for scheduled flow runs I see `INFO | Flow run adept panther Downloading flow code from storage at None` but then the flow never moves past this step

Ameya · Answer

flow run id `8659bc10 46a5 4301 ac08 18e04ca32aa3` if helpful

Ameya · Answer

o actually it looks like it finally ran but it was 8 minutes of downloading flow code

Ameya · Answer

any tips for getting that to be faster

Nicholas Torba · Answer

Compare your local files to the perfect ignore

Nicholas Torba · Answer

My best guess is a big csv file is sneaking in somehow

Ameya · Answer

is there anyway to check what prefect is actually downloading not seeing any big files that aren t in prefect ignore

Ameya · Answer

< Jenny> do you know if there is a way to check what prefect is downloading

Jenny · Answer

Hey < Ameya> Copying this from an earlier conversation Perhaps have your flow print the current directory name then sleep forever on start then go there and look at the files It s also just going to be a copy of some location Do you have large files there We recursively copy directories do you have a lot of files in nested directories Do you have a ` git` directory there What s excluded by your ` prefectignore` There s an older issue here that could be useful for debugging your flow as it s going through the steps you are asking about

Jenny · Answer

Did this help you or are you still seeing the issue