{"id":2389,"date":"2021-03-15T18:52:30","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T22:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ekozel.com\/?p=2389"},"modified":"2021-03-16T19:57:45","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T23:57:45","slug":"high-cpu-usage-by-google-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ekozel.com\/2021\/03\/15\/high-cpu-usage-by-google-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"High CPU usage by Google Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve been noticing high CPU (20% and higher) by multiple google drive processes on an RDS Server. Killing Google Drive on the server did not fix the issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After further investigation it appeared that the users on the RDS server had Google Drive auto started but couldn&#8217;t use it as the screen would never show up to login. I&#8217;m guessing Google drive got into some weird loop or so. For each user on their desktop I went to the Settings > &#8220;Startup Apps&#8221; settings and disabled the auto start of Google Drive. This solved the issue all together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The multiple high CPU processes created by Google Drive disappeared. This makes sense as I did not see just one Google Drive instance but multiples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been noticing high CPU (20% and higher) by multiple google drive processes on an RDS Server. Killing Google Drive on the server did not fix the issue. 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