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(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...
This is the only thing that worked for me:
http://www.michaelcarwile.com/throttle-dropbox-and-other-app-cpu-usage/
Dropbox (and other apps) has a tendency to use every bit of CPU it can, especially when starting up. On Mac (with Homebrew installed), Dropbox (and other apps) can be throttled via a tool called cpulimit.
Install cpulimit:
brew install cpulimit
Get Dropbox’s Process ID:
ps aux | grep Dropbox
user 19628 104.7 2.3 xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx ?? R 4:07PM 15:47.12 /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/MacOS/Dropbox
Run cpulimit with the -p flag using the process ID:
cpulimit -p 19628 -l 40Note: That’s a lowercase L (for limit) and the last number (40 in this case) is the percentage % of CPU you’d like to throttle the app to.
Also Note: cpulimit will output ‘Process xxx found’ and will continue to run until you kill it with <CTRL> + C
Just installed -- this is really cool, thanks... will be handy not just Dropbox. I might figure out a way to write a little script that can grab the PID for dropbox without too much trouble and start up. Will post back here.
