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Massive download at startup is consuming huge download bandwidth
Hi there, Every morning, when I log in my linux box, I see dropbox consuming huge download bandwidth and remain doing so during several minutes, til the point I have to kill it process to be able t...
Hi JpFortran, as we currently support Ubuntu and Fedora installations of Linux, the amount of support we can provide is limited for Mint.
Most likely there is something occurring with the app during the startup. Could you try delaying the startup, or preventing it entirely, and then starting it up later to see if this helps?
Hi @Jay,
I've tryied your recipe out (turn auto-start off, and manually start process after few minutes), and voilá.. no big tranfers happening (!). I've tryied it just once, but gonna delay dbox process to find out if this could be a permanent solution. (let's hope so!).
Maybe all of this mess is related to the office's firewall, which I have to manually accept (thru a disclaimer page which appears when I open a web browser) every single morning I turn pc on. During such process -between login and accepted disclaimer- spinning arrows of dbox icon are shown, and remains til inet is reached (always thought this was quite normal) and right then is when massive download begins.
Now I think this 'try-to-connect-without-luck' maybe confuses dbox process and leads it out of control.
Today is friday, so gonna play around on this issue only on monday. Let's wait til then to confirm if, to delay dbox start, is an effective solution.
Very thanks to all of you there; I'll be in touch.
(if I can be helpful in some way just let me know)
best regards,
Jp.
