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Dropbox is taking too much CPU time. How can I fix it?

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I recently noticed that Dropbox is taking about 50-90% of my CPU for more than just a few seconds sometimes - mostly when downloading/syncing many or large files.

Still, I guess that even when syncing a lot of data, there's no reason to use that much CPU (perhaps network or disk..)

Any ideas or suggestions? How can I make Dropbox use less CPU?

(running on Ubuntu 12.04 on Lenovo X220 with SSD Drive)

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answered 1 Year ago utilitere · Accepted Answer

Dropbox computes a hash of all files that it's going to sync, it uses it both to determine if they changed and to avoid uploading content that is already in their cloud (another customer has the same file).

Calculating hashes takes CPU power. It's usually noticeable at login.