Yep, I can see where that would be an issue.... Use an un-synced directory/folder and them back up to dropbox off-air if required... :)
______________________ Clay Autery, KY5G MONTAC Enterprises (318) 518-1389 On 2/5/2017 2:17 PM, John Ackermann N8UR 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/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.