The clogged upload puzzle

[Siggy Brentrup]

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 16:10 +0300, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
> Hello all =)
> 
> I have quite a puzzle. After I login into Ubuntu desktop shortly after
> everything is loaded system monitor shows constant ~180KiB upload
> activity.
> 
> I have no clue what is being uploaded and where. I've tried removing
> and killing all apps that might have some network activity with no
> luck.
> 
> netstat with various options is not showing anything useful (as
> discussed on #ubuntu)
> 
> So any tips and suggestions are welcome, and I'll do anything to find
> what the problem is.

Do you have any torrent installed?  Check e.g. like this:

% dpkg -l \*torrent\*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                                       Version                                   Description
+++-==========================================-=========================================-==================================================
ii  apt-transport-debtorrent                   0.2.1ubuntu2                              an APT transport for communicating with DebTorrent
ii  debtorrent                                 0.1.9                                     bittorrent proxy for downloading Debian packages
un  python-debtorrent                          <none>                                    (no description available)

This is on a Jaunty system (noticing that I forgot to install a package).

Torrents can be configured to donate some bandwidth for the sake of
relieving load from the big servers.

> I'm running karmic but I have suspicion it is something very basic.

eager to know the cause
  Siggy
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