... actually, that's just how much it's /received/ in the last hour.
It's additionally /sent/ over twice that. I just can't imagine why idle
chat protocols would need to send a megabyte of data every two or three
minutes!
On 27/11/14 14:53, Mik Scheper wrote:
In an effort to curb bandwidth charges, I've been running nethogs
<http://nethogs.sourceforge.net/> lately, and was surprised by just
how much bandwidth my Pidgin installation burns through. It's used up
over 12MB in the past hour, even though I've only exchanged a few chat
strings with people.
I would expect overhead from status messages and keeping track of
who's on and who's offline, but not that much! I have about a dozen
different chat accounts using various protocols; it'd be interesting
to know whether one's being a particular hog. Does anybody know of a
plug-in to help with that, or have any experience with particular
culprits (e.g. Facebook)? I know I can just activate and deactivate
accounts and see what changes, but it'd be nice if there was a more
convenient way.
Thanks,
MikZ.
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