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Benas

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From: i

Registered: 2008-10-23

Posts: 19

Dropbox issue

Hello everyone,

I've faced interesting problem after installing Dropbox today. It is set as a startup application on Cinnamon and it makes its start very slow. For instance, if I launch Chromium immediately after Cinnamon stars, Chromium only opens after about 10 seconds, while it opens after 3 seconds if Dropbox is disabled. It is quite annoying when you have to do stuff quickly.

Maybe someone had a similar problem?

halimbo

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From: Krefeld, Germany

Registered: 2013-10-23

Posts: 74

Re: Dropbox issue

I made the experience that all gtk-apps (especially Chromium) need more time on the first start, i always thought this is caused by caching the gtk stuff.

This may have distorted your results of observation

libernux

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2009-09-29

Posts: 53

Re: Dropbox issue

I think this is caused by the fact that dropbox starts to synchronize when it is started.
It will first have to find out wich files are updated, after that it will sync the updated files.
The more and bigger files you have the longer this process takes.

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brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,742

Re: Dropbox issue

I suggest using ionice & nice, e.g.:

ionice -c3 nice -n 16 /usr/bin/dropboxd

Benas

Member

From: i

Registered: 2008-10-23

Posts: 19

Re: Dropbox issue

That actually worked. Thank you