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maritimeseven
Explorer | Level 4
8 years ago

ManagedClient process consumes so much memory it causes a kernel panic

Starting about a month ago, the macOS Dropbox app has started consuming an abnormal amount of memory by way of the ManagedClient process. It'll climb to over 10GB of memory (not disk space) and event...
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maritimeseven
Explorer | Level 4
8 years ago

Excellent. I did quit the Dropbox app which keeping Activity Monitor open. About 5 seconds after quitting the Dropbox app, the ManagedClient process disappeared completely from Activity Monitor. 

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emclain
New member | Level 2
8 years ago

I just had a very similar experience... ManagedClient was using 8 GB of memory.  I quit Dropbox and ManagedClient disappeared.  Thanks @maritimeseven !

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