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Asked: 2020-05-09 02:59:08 +0800 CST

How to stop huge consumption of internet data by Ubuntu 20.04?

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For the past 5 years, I have been using Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. During that time, I didn’t face any unwanted internet data consumption issues. Recently I installed Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. I haven't installed any other software yet. I configured auto update settings as below. Ubuntu 20.04 software & update settings

Even after the above settings, Ubuntu 20.04 consumes around 1 GB of internet data within a few minutes in idle state (not browsing anything). I am using Wi-Fi hotspots internet data from mobile. Please help guide me to stop this huge unintended consumption of internet data by Ubuntu 20.04. Thanks.

internet network-monitoring 20.04

2 Answers

  1. You have to find out which process use your bandwidth, you should install and use nethogs to check how much which process use:

    sudo apt-get install nethogs

    https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man8/nethogs.8.html

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  2. Adjust automatic update settings in Software & Updates.

    To hold updating snaps when on a metered connection.

    sudo snap set system refresh.metered=hold

    Snaps update automatically, and by default, the snapd daemon checks for updates 4 times a day. To only refresh snaps on the last Friday of the month:

    sudo snap set system refresh.timer=fri5

    More information about the date-time formats that the snap CLI supports can be found here.

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