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I have always been wondering why Dropbox needs to have so many threads going on in OS X. Does anyone have an explanation, and does it actually stress the system
by MrJagil 16y ago
I have always been wondering why Dropbox needs to have so many threads going on in OS X. Does anyone have an explanation, and does it actually stress the system in any way?
(they just bumped the thread count from 16 to 18 for me in 1.0)
- jonburs 16y agoDoes it matter if those threads are waiting on various IO objects? Some are likely waiting for file system notifications (e.g., you modified something in your dropbox folder on your mac); others network notifications (modifications on other linked machines). Idle threads maybe consume at worse 1MB of address space (for their stack).