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lanux128:
120MB on my desktop (idle)-tomos (July 26, 2015, 11:27 PM)
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same here, on Win7 64-bit.
lanux128:
perhaps this is the reason.
Dropbox may seem like it doesn't need a lot of RAM to operate. The truth is: there's a lot of complexity under the hood!
For instance, Dropbox has to keep track of a lot of information about your files in order to make sure it can sync files quickly and efficiently. The more files you have in your Dropbox folder, the more memory Dropbox will need to keep track of them. That said, we are constantly working on making Dropbox more memory efficient and we continue to have significant improvements with each major release.
For our advanced users
Want more details? Dropbox stores metadata on your files in RAM to prevent constant and expensive database lookups while syncing. The metadata includes paths to files in your Dropbox, checksums, modification times, etc. We are working hard on making this information more compact and are working on several fronts to improve memory usage. Our techniques are not limited to rewriting pieces of our source code and writing custom memory allocators.
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Source: Why is Dropbox using so much RAM? - https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/144
eleman:
perhaps this is the reason.
Dropbox may seem like it doesn't need a lot of RAM to operate. The truth is: there's a lot of complexity under the hood!
For instance, Dropbox has to keep track of a lot of information about your files in order to make sure it can sync files quickly and efficiently. The more files you have in your Dropbox folder, the more memory Dropbox will need to keep track of them. That said, we are constantly working on making Dropbox more memory efficient and we continue to have significant improvements with each major release.
For our advanced users
Want more details? Dropbox stores metadata on your files in RAM to prevent constant and expensive database lookups while syncing. The metadata includes paths to files in your Dropbox, checksums, modification times, etc. We are working hard on making this information more compact and are working on several fronts to improve memory usage. Our techniques are not limited to rewriting pieces of our source code and writing custom memory allocators.
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Source: Why is Dropbox using so much RAM? - https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/144
-lanux128 (July 27, 2015, 03:10 AM)
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Translation from corporatespeak to plain English: We can't be bothered to write optimized code for each and every OS. Instead we chose to waste your ram on generic libraries which are built to work on multiple operating systems, rather than for efficiency.
Shades:
Although I agree with eleman here, whenever an application requires to a (full-fledged) database to operate, it is a serious consideration to store the results of queries etc. into RAM. Using more RAM for the application means it will be much more responsive, because retrieving and storing in a database is "expensive". Not only time-wise (responsiveness), but you also introduce an extra factor for reliability, especially when you need to access databases off-site.
Nowadays computers have quite a lot of RAM onboard and usually decent connections to (off-site) databases. However, you cannot trust to have a decent connection 100% of the time, while the RAM is a much more stable resource. For a good (newbie) user-experience, the trend is to use the most stable resources at hand.
Deozaan:
While we've kind of digressed into application memory usage, can I ask what those using the Dropbox client show it's memory usage as?-4wd (July 26, 2015, 09:30 PM)
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15,300K while idling on my PC (Win7 x64).
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