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Dropbox Memory on XP PC

jefboyardee

jefboyardee

Extreme Android User
If I launch the desktop Dropbox program, Task Manager tells me it’s using over 100,000KB (aka 1GB?) of RAM. It used to use around 50,000KB and I have no idea what changed it. Some sites say that 500KB is indeed normal, none of them say 1GB is.

So, scrounging memory, I just don’t run it and logon to their website instead. With a few more steps I can basically do the same things, but I’d rather just have the program behave like it used to... any ideas?
 
Hmm... I've never used the desktop application, but the first thing that comes to mind is that maybe it was using 50kb as a background process (just running), and 100 as a foreground process (currently uploading/downloading files).

So... have you maybe set it to sync a bunch of files?
 
So... have you maybe set it to sync a bunch of files?
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No, it uses those numbers, then and now, with the thing just sitting there doing nothing.

edit: And sorry, I fixed those numbers earlier. It’s not 50KB, it’s 500KB. So doing nothing, it used to use a half gig and now it uses twice that. (I can’t count that high.)
 
Hmm... And you didn't update the app?

If you updated the app, I guess there could be some kind of leak in it that makes it take up more memory than it should....

Outside of that, I'm not sure. :/
 
Okay, my unit converter concurs with that. So it used to use 50MB, now 100MB. That finally makes sense but it’s still taking quite a chunk of my 1GB memory.
 
True that does still seem a lot. On my Win 7 machine, dropbox.exe is only using 19MB of RAM...
 
I emailed Dropbox about this, waited a few days, and got, “Thanks for writing in. While we'd love to answer every question we receive, we can't get back to you at this time.” Fine, I just won’t use it unless I have to.
 
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