Insync on Fedora-26 consuming a ton of resources at startup

Hello:

On each of my Fedora-26/64-bit computers (2 laptops and a very large server), when insync is started, it consumes a TON of computer resources for about two minutes. You can hear the fans speed up. This is what top(1) shows:

top - 00:05:10 up 1 min,  1 user,  load average: 0.89, 0.33, 0.12
Tasks: 205 total,   1 running, 204 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
%Cpu(s):  9.2 us,  3.1 sy,  0.0 ni, 87.2 id,  0.3 wa,  0.1 hi,  0.1 si,  0.0 st
KiB Mem : 16287000 total, 13703632 free,   489016 used,  2094352 buff/cache
KiB Swap:        0 total,        0 free,        0 used. 15375844 avail Mem 

  PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND                                            
  914 jdoe      20   0 1056452 139896  44928 S  97.0  0.9   1:16.91 insync                                             
 1282 root      20   0  444556  89812  53304 S   1.0  0.6   0:01.43 Xorg                                               
 1897 jdoe      20   0  800260  57508  35148 S   0.3  0.4   0:00.52 terminator                                         
 1977 jdoe      20   0  155864   3808   3312 R   0.3  0.0   0:00.03 top                                                
    1 root      20   0  221020   8808   6472 S   0.0  0.1   0:01.21 systemd                                            
    2 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kthreadd                                           
    3 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kworker/0:0                                        
    4 root       0 -20       0      0      0 S   0.0  0.0   0:00.00 kworker/0:0H                                       
    5 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.0  0.0   0:00.04 kworker/u16:0                                      
    6 root       0 -20       0      0      0 S   0.0  0.0   0:00.00 mm_percpu_wq                                       
    7 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.0  0.0   0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0                                        
    8 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.0  0.0   0:00.04 rcu_sched                                          
    9 root      20   0       0      0      0 S   0.0  0.0   0:00.00 rcu_bh                                             
   10 root      rt   0       0      0      0 S   0.0  0.0   0:00.00 migration/0
jdoe@fedora$ rpm -qa | grep insync
insync-1.3.17.36167-fc25.x86_64

Might this be a bug?

Tagging our engineer @jimperio and he will get back to you.

Do you happen to have a large number of files on those machines? We’ve received similar reports in the past, and usually they’re caused by Insync’s startup behavior of scanning local files for changes.

Hi Jomel, Janine and Friends:

:slight_smile:

I don’t believe so, but here are the numbers …

jdoe@fedora$ cd ${GDRIVES_ROOT}
jdoe@fedora$ du -h | wc -l
25687