Comment 11 for bug 396770

This bug is NOT a duplicate of bug #435137. This bug is about high CPU consumption while bug #435137 is about disk space consumption.

I can confirm this bug is still affecting Ubuntu Natty and Oneiric RC1.

The asked some Gb of files to be sync and the ubuntuone daemon took immidiatly 100% of the CPU, making the computer so slow it was unusable. I had to kill the daemon (and it's very hard to kill) then remove it from the applications that launch at start up to be able to use my laptop again.

Not only it makes one of the commercial features of Ubuntu unuseable, but it can have a strong impact on the beginers perspective, that will have no way to know why suddenly his computer is becoming unusable. And no way to solve the problem but to drop Ubuntu. Remember than a clic on the box 'sync this folder' can trigger this.

It seems a high priority bug to me, and is probably complicated to solve given that:

- I reported this problem to the team one year ago and we exhanged dozen of mails with my logs but the problem remains while I changed my machine and my distro.
- My current computer is a brand new samsung 9 series with a core i5 and a SSD drive. It's still hanging under the daemon load!
- Dropbox with the same files is almost unoticeable while syncing.