Dropboxd high cpu usage after sync

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macke
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Dropboxd high cpu usage after sync

Post by macke »

Hi,

I have an AS-304T (recently purchased) with ADM 2.6.5.R9N1.

After synching my dropbox (180GB), dropboxd now takes 25% all the time (one full CPU).
(It did not do that during sync..)

Status (via web-UI) alternates between "idle", "checking" and "(Dropbox) indexing" and uploading the latest modified file all the time.

The NAS is making some weird noises all the time due to the disk checking as well.
I'd wish dropboxd be quiet until there is something to do.

I haven't found any logs or places to check what it's doingeither

Currently the file name is "~lock.man on the moon.docx" which I wrote over the a network share.
However, it was behaving just the same before I created that file, sometimes uploading some .exe files instead, with no weird characters.

Ideas?

Cheers,
/Marcus
joe
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Re: Dropboxd high cpu usage after sync

Post by joe »

macke wrote:Ideas?
Read all of this thread: http://forum.asustor.com/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=8202

Asustor could fix this if they were to acknowledge / agree there is a problem with this app but the support ticket I raised stalled and is now going nowhere. I'm afraid don't have the solution for you and this code is looking like poorly supported abandonware.
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orion
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Re: Dropboxd high cpu usage after sync

Post by orion »

That (high CPU usage) could result from dropboxd still working. You can check "home\.datasync-dropbox\datasync_dropbox.log" if there are any useful information.
macke
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Re: Dropboxd high cpu usage after sync

Post by macke »

Thanks for the tip about the log file.

Dropboxd is trying to download three files over and over again but getting "HTTP 409 path/restricted_content/..." error, probably because of the names of these files.
Will look into renaming or zipping them.

It constantly tries to download these files. Apparently the Asustror dropbox client doensn't know about 409 errors and just retries.

It'd been better if it retries every hour or day or so for these files.

The log is below. It might help either Asustor staff or some other poor soul having the same issue.

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[dropboxd.cpp:1012]->   Unsyncfiles 0
[dropboxd.cpp:1099]->   New Folders 0
[dropboxd.cpp:1099]->   New Folders 0
[dropboxd.cpp:3142]->   Find Local New Files
[dropboxd.cpp:1406]->   LocalFiles New Files: 0
[dropboxd.cpp:3151]->   Find Remote New Files
[dropboxd.cpp:1406]->   RemoteFiles New Files: 3
[dropboxd.cpp:1443]->   Set g_bReSync true
[datasync_util.h: 778]->        Task add, 1 tasks are running
[dropboxd.cpp:1443]->   Set g_bReSync true
[dropboxd.cpp:1210]->   Downloading file. /TinaBackup/Downloads/wirelesskeyview.zip
[dropboxd.cpp:1210]->   [datasync_util.h: 778]->        Downloading file. /TinaBackup/Downloads/SpotifySetup (1).exe
Task add, 2 tasks are running
[dropboxd.cpp:1443]->   Set g_bReSync true
[datasync_util.h: 778]->        Task add, 3 tasks are running
[dropboxd.cpp:1210]->   Downloading file. /Moonshine/Teknik/Mjukvara/Soundcheck/TrueRTA/KeyGen.exe
[dropboxd.cpp:3163]->   Find Local Delete Folder
[dropbox_api_v2.cpp: 706]->     [dropbox_api_v2.cpp: 706]->     Dropbox-API-Arg: { "path": "\/TinaBackup\/Downloads\/SpotifySetup (1).exe" }
Dropbox-API-Arg: { "path": "\/TinaBackup\/Downloads\/wirelesskeyview.zip" }
[dropbox_api_v2.cpp: 706]->     Dropbox-API-Arg: { "path": "\/Moonshine\/Teknik\/Mjukvara\/Soundcheck\/TrueRTA\/KeyGen.exe" }
[dropboxd.cpp:1745]->   Deleting total 0 folders
[dropboxd.cpp:3177]->   Find Remote Delete Folder
[dropboxd.cpp:1745]->   Deleting total 0 folders
[dropboxd.cpp:3192]->   Find Local Deleted Files
[dropbox_api_v2.cpp: 733]->     Header HTTP/1.1 409 path/restricted_content/...
Server: nginx
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2016 11:37:30 GMT
Content-Type: application/json
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: keep-alive
X-Dropbox-Request-Id: 93ab97f50d9d46acf4b7d95da9501f06
X-Robots-Tag: noindex, nofollow, noimageindex


[dropbox_api_v2.cpp:1372]->     Execption: No Response Json
[dropbox_api_v2.cpp: 733]->     Header HTTP/1.1 409 path/restricted_content/.
Server: nginx
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2016 11:37:30 GMT
Content-Type: application/json
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: keep-alive
X-Dropbox-Request-Id: 84a51a83a8f4d4919916c3ea75074f5c
X-Robots-Tag: noindex, nofollow, noimageindex


[dropbox_api_v2.cpp:1372]->     Execption: No Response Json
[dropboxd.cpp:1219]->   Download file error.
[dropboxd.cpp:1219]->   Download file error.
[dropboxd.cpp:1275]->   Set g_bReSync true
[dropboxd.cpp:1275]->   Set g_bReSync true
[dropbox_api_v2.cpp: 733]->     Header HTTP/1.1 409 path/restricted_content/
Server: nginx
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2016 11:37:30 GMT
Content-Type: application/json
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: keep-alive
X-Dropbox-Request-Id: ca3007a11296af08dc621c308d5be0ea
X-Robots-Tag: noindex, nofollow, noimageindex


[dropbox_api_v2.cpp:1372]->     Execption: No Response Json
[dropboxd.cpp:1219]->   Download file error.
[dropboxd.cpp:1275]->   Set g_bReSync true
[dropboxd.cpp:1648]->   Deleting total 0 files
[dropboxd.cpp:3200]->   1 1 1 1
[dropboxd.cpp:3206]->   Find Remote Deleted Files
[dropboxd.cpp:1648]->   Deleting total 0 files
[dropboxd.cpp:3075]->   Set g_bReSync false
[filetable.h: 520]->    Synchronized Delete File
[filetable.h: 538]->    Synchronized New File
[filetable.h: 558]->    Synchronized Merdify File
[filetable.h: 600]->    END UpdateSyncData
macke
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Re: Dropboxd high cpu usage after sync

Post by macke »

Removing or zipping those files did the trick. CPU Usage back to near 0% again.

Thanks y'all!
fivestringer
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Re: Dropboxd high cpu usage after sync

Post by fivestringer »

I've been having the same high network usage and constant disk access issues too.

After pulling my hair out (what little is left) trying to find the culprit (I'm not a code guru like most of you), I finally isolated the issue to the Dropbox app.

Killing it solved my problems.
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