Re:The new Dropbox
by bluedino on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @12:34PM
(#20166449)
At what piont do you see issues? I'm on the free tier and only have about 3GB of files and have never noticed any CPU usages issues with Dropbox on my Mac
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Perhaps you haven't looked? Try cloning a git repo, or unpacking a tarball with many files (doesn't matter if it's inside Dropbox or not) and observe the CPU usage of the Dropbox process.
I checked right now and the Dropbox process on my machine has consumed a total of 39 minutes CPU time. That's 39 minutes of full-scale CPU usage. Even their "web helper" process (whatever that is) consumed two minutes and 41 seconds.
(Google) Backup & Sync currently shows 2:04.46 in CPU time on my Mac. I'm guessing that means 2 hours and 4 minutes. The machine was shutdown overnight and booted this morning.
Is this something that resets with each boot?
I don’t have a use case for cloning a git repo to Dropbox
Re:The new Dropbox
by vishvananda on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @03:00PM
(#20168107)
the parent mentions in parentheses that the dir doesn't have to be in dropbox because it appears to monitor all files.
Sounds broken on user end. Never seen anything like this when using Dropbox on several versions of Windows and Ubuntu, on both low-end and high-end machines.