The clogged upload puzzle

[Siggy Brentrup]

Hi Dima,

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 17:35 +0300, you wrote:
> 2009/9/12 Siggy Brentrup <ubuntu at psycho.i21k.de>:
> > 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.

It's a nice effect: I wanted to hint you at a possible cause but
finally you tought me that people are actually using that stuff.
Maybe I'll ask you when I come to use it myself (I run a mixture
of Ubuntu, Debian and OpenBSD systems on various architectures).

Thanks
  Siggy
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