Thanks for the post. On 24/10/2013, at 11:43 PM, LuKreme <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 24 Oct 2013, at 01:27 , Ashley Aitken <[email protected]> wrote: >> I have a strange problem with my laptop. When on the Ethernet network at >> work netbiosd seems to continually download data at around 5+MB/s. I traced >> this by closing all apps and using nettop. I can't understand what this >> could be. > > Have you looked to see what lsof shows as being open? I did briefly but will do it again next time I am at work. It is not doing it at home even when on Ethernet, which is kind of strange. I had something similar happen in the past when Mail.app decided to redownload my entire email collection at MB/s but this time I checked and Mail is not the culprit. >> Does anyone have any suggestions as to what this may be? Know where to look >> for software update download files? > > /var/folders I think. Interesting, but not much decipherable there. >> Suggest how to stop this? I've tried killing netbiosd (just respawns), even >> rebooting machine (it starts again). > > I’d look at lsof on the netbios port. Or try closing your netbios port (137). > > lsof -i :137 > > should give you a clue. Will do. I turned on the firewall and blocked all external connections but that didn't stop it, so it seems like it is originating from the Mac itself. Thanks for the suggestions. Cheers, Ashley. PS Forgot to say this is Mac OS X 10.8.5 running on 2010 MacBook Pro -- Ashley Aitken Perth, Western Australia (GMT + 8hrs!) Social (Facebook, Twitter, Skype etc.): MrHatken Professional (LinkedIn, Twitter, Skype etc.): AshleyAitken _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
