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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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Gordon Q.'s avatar
Gordon Q.
New member | Level 1
9 years ago

I have the same kind of issue.  As soon as Dropbox starts syncing, whether it be one file or 100, my iMac bogs down and my disk starts howling.  It's like Dropbox is the Soup Nazi of apps – "No processing for you!"  It feels like a scheduler problem to me.  I wish Apple or Dropbox would give me the ability to limit Dropbox to a capped slice of processor and disk usage.  Dropbox could use idle resources when available, but when other functions need resources, Dropbox is backed off to it's cap.  You know, state of the art 1970s computing.  

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