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Well, yes, but if you read the result of his tests even with syncing turned off Dropbox is still eating about 500 mAh.

And that is, I would say, rather strange.

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I guess the Python interpreter is preventing the CPU from entering lower sleep states.

You are right. That is strange. I never tried turning synching off; I just turn Dropbox off entirely. But is that load not a result of the FS monitoring? Or does that take far less in itself?

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