On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 3:59 AM, mercedes508 <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > > Yesterday I was using Tails 1.0.1 and there was a connection to > > 204.13.164.188 that according to Vidalia was open for a while. I > > checked every once in a while and it remained open, maybe 45 minutes > > at least (I wasn't watching the entire time however the relay path > > didn't change so I assume it was the same connection). I want to know > > why that connection remained open for so long, what's it for? I have > > run tails a bunch of times but that's never happened. > > It is certainly because of the time sync as you can see in our > dedicated FAQ section: > > https://tails.boum.org/support/faq/#index20h2 > > The mentioned IP is boum.org, which is in our pool for time sync. > Ok but why was it connected for so long? I've never seen that happen before. Also boum.org resolves to a different IP address. > Also last night at a later time I noticed Vidalia and > > tails-security-(something) both using a lot of cpu, about 50% each. > > After a few minutes I killed both processes. Is that normal? I don't > > check top often but after what happened above I was running it. > > Unfortunately I have no idea. Could you eventually give more context > information, more precision on how it happened? > I noticed Vidalia refreshing so it might be what intrigeri said about eating a lot of CPU when the metadata is downloaded. But why did tails-security-(something) also eat CPU? If there is any monitoring you want me to do let me know how to do it. Thanks
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