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High CPU usage even when not syncing or indexing
For the past couple of days, Dropbox has been consistently using around 30% of my CPU, when not syncing or indexing anything (i.e., the menu bar drop down says `Up to date`). Any idea why this might ...
If you leave Task Manager open do you see Dropbox going crazy consuming one of your CPU cores for 10 minutes plus once or twice per day? I have 4 cores and 8 logical processors, Dropbox is consuming 20% of that right now. There's no associated disk activity which there would be if it was hashing files or whatever.
I wonder if they're mining crypto on my computer... The graphs are showing 4 minutes of history on the low update speed setting in Task Manager. All that CPU is Dropbox as I was away from the computer. That would explain RAM usage as well!
dbox_ so what's the deal with why your software consumes so much RAM and CPU?
Also, have you considered how much extra CO2 emissions the processing issue is causing by millions of computers worldwide using 40W extra due to your software pinning the CPU for significant time on a daily basis, for no valid reason? This needs fixing. (Also something for Microsoft to think about with their heavyweight Windows Updates and ComPatTelRunner.exe nonsense that goes on every day.)
