Hi, I use onedrive, with the save space and download files as you use them. I also limit the amount of bandwidth it's using. I've not experienced the same issues that you have. My git repository is in my onedrive folder which is a bit bigger than your set up,
Regards Davy *... .. / .... --- -.-. / .-.. . --. . .-. . / ... -.-. .. ... / -. .. -- .. ..- -- / . .-. ..- -.. .. - .. --- -. .. ... / .... .- -... . ... .-.-.-* On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 9:38 AM Greg Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > Sorry, this is a bit of a long rambling request for advice on using or > replacing dropbox due to performance reasons with a large number of files > (about 0.5M+ files). > > I used to be a huge supporter of dropbox. It used to just work and was > reasonably responsive. Then it just stopped working for me last year. > > I think this may have been around the time when the OS updates were made > for Spectre and Meltdown Security Flaw. The drop in effective performance > of the CPU may have pushed the machine below the capacity to run the > software??? > > I attempted to get some help from dropbox but that was a huge waste of > time. > > I have now just got around to looking at alternatives. > > The first one I tried was One Drive. Because I am in a Microsoft setup, > One Drive was the first logical choice. > > My current One Drive setup has 283K files in 105K folders with 70GB in the > cloud and 27GB on the local machine. > > With One Drive in use, I have noticed the “One Drive Sync Engine” along > with the “Windows Search Indexer” tasks running all the time, pushing up > the CPU usage and the fans on the system are running to cool it down (which > beforehand never happened). It is somewhat clever enough to know when > there is interactive use and push the priority of the task down. But if I > go away from my desk for a few minutes the task is taking a lot of CPU and > the fans are running again. > > What I am looking for in a dropbox alternative is: > > 1. Reasonable performance > > 2. Online backup of working files > > 3. Reasonable price (yes I will pay for it) > > I think that my options are: > > 1. https://www.dropbox.com – Should I go back and try again???? > > 2. https://onedrive.live.com/ - Are the problems I am having > consistent with your experience? > > 3. https://www.google.com/drive/ > > 4. https://www.box.com/ > > 5. Other > > I am running an old Intel Xeon 2.8GHz with 32 GB RAM as the base machine > with a 3 core 10 GB VM inside it as my primary work horse machine. > > It has been clear the Moore’s law has died in the last five years, so I > have seen no clear and present need to upgrade this machine. I am thinking > that may be wrong, do I just need a new machine??? > > > Thanks for your help on this :-) > > > Greg Harris > Harris Consulting Group Pty Ltd > [email protected] > www.HarrisConsultingGroup.com <http://harrisconsultinggroup.com/home.htm> > phone: (international) +61 407 942 982 > phone: (within Australia) 0407 942 982 > Sydney > Australia >
