trickle (bandwidth shaper) with dropbox causes 100% CPU

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I'm limiting dropbox upload bandwith with trickle as suggested here.

@reboot trickle -u 100 ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd

This works great but unfortunately causes 100% CPU - even with only 2-3 (small) files in total. On its own Dropbox only consumes about 1-2% CPU (without trickle).

What might cause this CPU hog? Is there any other way to throttle Dropbox upload speed?

Possible duplicate: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/34116/how-can-i-limit-the-bandwidth-used-by-a-process — krowe, Jul 06 '14 at 21:39
@krowe No: that thread provides other techniques to achieve the same thing, but doesn't address why this particular technique doesn't work. — Gilles 'SO- stop being evil', Jul 06 '14 at 23:11
What versions of trickle and dropbox do you have? Have you checked their bug list? What distribution are you using? — Gilles 'SO- stop being evil', Jul 06 '14 at 23:12

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 03 '15 at 01:35

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I have no idea if this is still relevant. With Dropbox on Linux you can right click on the applet - select preferences - bandwidth and change the allowed the download and upload rate.

answered Feb 03 '15 at 01:35

Tocoapuffs

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