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M. A.1's avatar
M. A.1
New member | Level 1
11 years ago

Too high disk activity

While I'm using my computer normally without touching anything Dropbox related, the Dropbox process (I have a system monitor installed that shows disk usage and which process is using it the most amo...
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gregrobson's avatar
gregrobson
New member | Level 2
8 years ago

Aha! Finally - confirmation! I've spent hours trying to track this down (I even swapped my desktop unit thinking it might be a dodgy disk).

 

I used the GUI for the Windows Peformance Toolkit by Google (scroll down to the Oct 12, 2015 post by MoRbldBoY) linked on this page: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-hardware/how-to-fix-100-disk-usage-in-windows-10/7c5c979b-0ed0-4855-b9b8-05b9499533e2?page=3

 

What do I see? 100% usage and Dropbox is all over the place. I pause sync and the disk usage drops, unpause and it's soon at 100% again. I'm using SmartSync so there's hardly any I/O transfer.

 

How has this issue existed for so long Dropbox? I hope my boss can get our OneDrive issues sorted in the next few days: then we can say goodbye to this.

 

Hopefully this sample of trace might give one of your devs a clue!

 

 

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Norah
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8 years ago
 
Hi gregrobson, Levi and motionmind, welcome to Dropbox Community!
 
As this is an issue that needs thorough investigation could you raise a ticket with our team here so that we can troubleshoot further for you? 
 
Once you’ve raised the ticket please include the ID and I’ll make sure that a colleague handles your case asap. 
 
Thanks in advance for your reply!
  • mjohnson86's avatar
    mjohnson86
    New member | Level 2
    8 years ago

    Go ahead and add me to the ticket as well.  This isn't a new issue, I think its a systemic one, most likely related to the root logic of how dropbox works.  I loose 20-30 minutes every morning because of this.. and we are only using 2% of the 10 TB that we have access too... if we actually utilized what we paid for I'd have to login to my computer on friday to be able to start monday morning.

     

    You guys did 1.1 billion in revenue last year... you aren't a startup anymore... put your big boy pants on and step up to the plate, or google will beat you since they probably dropped that much on latte's and granola last year for the crew.

     

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