Yes, I noticed that before. I have a number of tools that don't like running off a Dropbox folder, including several software development tools for starter. Too many files opened at the same time. Don't assume that because it looks like a normal folder, it works like one, even though for many things, it does work remarkably well.
On Feb 5, 2017 2:32 PM, "John Ackermann N8UR" <j...@febo.com> wrote: > So I was clever and decided to log some PPS data to a folder within my > "Dropbox" folder. Strange results followed... the whole system just bogged > down, and even fairly slow serial data dropped characters. > > It turns out that the culprit was the Dropbox daemon continuously trying > to sync the file as it changed every second. It didn't manifest as CPU > overload or anything obvious; the problem was apparently thrashing in the > I/O system. Once I started dumping the data to a "normal" directory, the > problem went away. (This was on Linux, by the way). > > So, a lesson learned -- don't stream unbuffered data, even at a low rate, > into a sync'd folder! > > John > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/m > ailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.