Dropbox makes macbook pro 2018 crazy

[mjyu51]

on a macbook pro 2018 i9/32/4TB, I installed dropbox and then the Fan run very loud. I looked at the activity monitor the CPU usage is only 1.5% sys + 11% user; also noticed the battery dropped very quickly ~2% every 20seconds.
Does anyone experience the same problem?

 

[afir93]

2% every 20 seconds sounds extremely fast, that means the battery goes from 100% to 0% in just about 33 minutes?

I haven't used Dropbox much since I switched to iCloud but I've heard that Dropbox' Mac client doesn't exactly have a splendid performance nowadays. How much storage do you have in your Dropbox? Is it currently syncing and potentially up- and downloading a lot of stuff? If so, I would just connect the MBP to an outlet give it a bit of time until it has finished its first sync. Unless the performance issues continue afterwards, I wouldn't worry too much.

 

[maflynn]

Does the activity monitor's Energy tab give you anything to use?

 

[Big Ron]

I must say that Dropbox doesn't seem to have any performance affect on my MacBook - it just sits there in the background doing it's thing.

I mainly keep is as an extra bit of online storage - its not always used but at the same time it is nice to know it is there if you need it.

 

[mjyu51]

i have installed Intel Power Gadget. It clearly shows that the power consumption is way above 45W, and Temperature run above 85C quickly.

 

[jerryk]

If you have a lot of files in the cloud they have to sink down. Give a day or so to get them down.

 

[maflynn]

If you have a lot of files in the cloud they have to sink down. Give a day or so to get them down.

That's really the only explanation. If dropbox is syncing between the server and the local machine. DropBox is one of those fire and forget utilities, I've not had any issues with it, ever.