2010/1/21 Mehul Ved <[email protected]>

> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 10:37 PM, Bhargav Prasanna
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Conky has been transferring 1 to 1.5 kbps (up and down) over my internet
> (my
> > router's internet LED blinks) connection though it isn't supposed to do
> so.
> > This is shown in its own upspeed and downspeed graphs and in GNOME system
> > monitor.
> >
> > When i kill conky, this doesn't happen. System Monitor validates this
> too.
> > Since I have a 1.5 GB monthly limit and since I leave my connection on
> for
> > long periods of time, this is not really good for me.
> >
> > My .conkyrc file: http://pastebin.com/m63194053
> >
> > Why is this happening?
> > Is there a workaround/patch?
>
> Not sure about the exact cause but you can try replacing rhost with
> rip. Probably conky is doing host name check up for remote hosts. It
> might be causing the bandwidth usage. Though it shouldn't be really
> doing it if there are no remote connections.
>
> You could also run tcpdump/wireshark to capture packets and find out
> what is causing the network usage.
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Replacing rhost with rip solved the issue. Thanks.

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