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Dave H.'s avatar
Dave H.
New member | Level 2
10 years ago

(OS X) Dropbox consuming a lot of CPU whenever any file or folder is changed anywhere

On my OS X 10.9.5 system I'm seeing Dropbox consume CPU whenever anything on the file system changes, regardless of whether the changed files or folders are in the Dropbox synced folders. The CPU usa...
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Patrick M.42
New member | Level 1
9 years ago

Seems like a lot of people on OSX here, but I'm having the same issue on Windows. 

I have approx. 66k files (I am using it to synchronize my Atom config folder, so lots of very small config and code files).

Every now and then a few files get changed (say 10 in total, perhaps 7kb each), and Dropbox starts ramping up my i7 CPU for hours, the fan nearly achieving lift-off from the table, finishing its sync eventually after 2 hours in my most recent experience.

I don't understand how syncing a handful of files, a few kb in size, can cause such mayham on a system.

I'm inclined to go back to Google Drive over this. It was very efficient in its usage of resources and synced files more readily and intuitively. I have no clue what the Dropbox client is trying to do most of the time. Clearly not just syncing my files.

 

Anybody know of any movement on this front from other sources maybe?

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