This used to work just fine but in the last two weeks it has been noticed that the connection seems to have slowed down significantly. Performing gsutil ls -lr gs://bucket/folder takes around 10 minutes. There are about 4000 files in that folder totaling about 250GiB. Performing the same command in Cloud Shell takes seconds.
The gcsfuse is mounted through fstab with: gcsbucketname /localfolder/gcsbucketname gcsfuse rw,noauto,allow_other,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=11111,group_id=111,default_permissions
user_id and group_id changed to all 1's.