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JohnnyB75
Aspirant
Aug 29, 2015

ReadyDrop high CPU usage

Hi   I've installed ReadyCloud on my Windows 10 32-bit Notebook which has an Intel Core2 Duo 2.26GHz CPU with 4Gb RAM and ReadyCloudClient app has spawn 4 ReadDrop instances and between the 5 app i...
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BrianL2's avatar
BrianL2
NETGEAR Employee Retired
Sep 08, 2015

Hi JohnnyB75,

 

I believe this is normal when a backup or sync is in progress between your PC and the ReadyNAS. The said process was initiated by the ReadyCLOUD desktop app and once its done, the CPU utilization will decrease from 40% - 50% to 3% - 5%.

 

Just let me know if you have other questions.

 

 

Kind regards,

 

BrianL
NETGEAR Community

 

 

  • JohnnyB75's avatar
    JohnnyB75
    Aspirant
    Sep 09, 2015

    Hi 

     

    I agree that I would see a spike in CPU during the inital sync each day however this is constant high CPU usage.  I'm guessing there is two reasons for this:

     

    1. That ReadyCloud app and ReadyDrop are constantly scanning the directories for changes
    2. Some of the directories it's trying to sync have over 100k files in them

    The problem is that the content isn't changing much in the folders with a large number of files; maybe once a month for my pictures folder which includes my photo's, their thumbnails and my adobe lightroom catelog. 

     

    I'm currently looking at using a third-party app that allows my to schedule my backup intervals (on startup) and backup mechanism (copy if changed).

     

    Any suggestion on how to use the ReadyCloud app to achieve a similar result would be greatly appreciated as I'm going to have to pay for the backup solution I'm currently evaluating soon.

     

    Regards

     

    John.

    • BrianL2's avatar
      BrianL2
      NETGEAR Employee Retired
      Sep 09, 2015

      Hi JohnnyB75,

       

      Can you tell us the Firmware version of your ReadyNAS and the version of the ReadyCLOUD desktop app installed in your PC?

       


      Kind regards,

       

      BrianL
      NETGEAR Community

      • JohnnyB75's avatar
        JohnnyB75
        Aspirant
        Sep 09, 2015

        The firmware version on my NAS is 6.2.5 and I've uninstalled the ReadyCloud app but it was the latest version of the Netgear website (I've only had the has less than a month now).

         

        Regards

         

        John.

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