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Shashanksahu11
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High network usage without doing anything

Post by Shashanksahu11 »

Hi All,
Many times i have seen high network usage as soon as i just start the laptop and without opening any other program, network usage is as high as 200+ MB.
What could be the reason for that?
I am attaching
Screenshot at 2021-05-16 10-48-48.png
the screenshot of resource monitor
I am using linuxMint 20.1 Ulyssa Mate version.
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Re: High network usage without doing anything

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Check bash script. ( lsof -Pi command may be sufficient if the run at the appropriate time from root. ( very difficult ) )
viewtopic.php?f=213&t=349113

List of interesting packages and check what you have installed.
viewtopic.php?f=90&t=338686
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