The clogged upload puzzle

[Dmitrijs Ledkovs]

2009/9/12 Siggy Brentrup <ubuntu at psycho.i21k.de>:
> 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:
>

Well I have torrents installed but they are turned off right now.

After further investigation (and removing about half a dozen packages)
I think I have found the pest.

Pulseaudio server Multicast was enabled. So it was shouting all sounds
by my sourcard constantly into the network. But there was nobody
connected / listening to that that's why netstat did not show anything
up.

And I've found that out by installin papref package and running the
pulseaudio applet while trying to make skype work again.

-- 
With best regards


Dmitrijs Ledkovs (for short Dima),
Ледков Дмитрий Юрьевич