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I use Dropbox in OS Monterey. I am not a heavy user in terms of number of files and usage complexity. I just use to sync files. My DB account has 3.8 Gb in files.
Despite this simple usage, DB app is consistently using 1.7Gb of my RAM, making it the largest app in terms of RAM commitment.
Do you know how can I reduce RAM usage?
Same problem here. Macbook Air M2 with 8GB of RAM, Ventura 13.5.2.
Dropbox uses ~630MB of memory after a clean restart. 448MB of that is for the main Dropbox application, which is bad enough, but then I noticed all the Dropbox Helper processes that are using a bunch more memory... and it's using hundreds of threads?! This is while it's doing NOTHING, and I only have a few folders (maybe 100 files total) selected for syncing.
Over time the memory usage creeps up steadily. This is ridiculous! I've used Dropbox for a long time but I might finally have to switch.
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