Pihole -g / List download / disappointing performance

No. FTL v5.0 does not need any gravity runs for any list manipulations. We just send a suitable signal to pihole-FTL (automatically done for you) and FTL will found out for itself what changed.

pihole -g is really run only once weekly (unless invoked manually).


While we're at it, I should mention that FTL can be informed about list changes in three ways:

  • pihole restartdns: Full restart of pihole-FTL (slowest)
  • pihole restartdns reload: Looks for updates to the lists, flushes dnsmasq's DNS cache (faster than with v4.x)
  • pihole restartdns reload-lists: Looks for updates to the lists WITHOUT flushing dnsmasq's DNS cache (new, basically instant)