Hi guys, 

 

The past couple of days I noticed constant network traffic and cpu activity while no dockers or tasks are running. I have no VMs and I mainly use Plex but I constantly see CPU and network traffic, and when I say constant I mean non-stop as long as my machine is on. I am Linux novice so I'm hoping the community can teach me a few things and point me to the right direction. I am using version 6.7.2 and I took a screen shot of the system stats after a few minutes yesterday and as you can see, the cpu and network traffic is low but non-stop and I would like to understand where it's from. I tried looking at the processes and the sys log but obviously I have no idea what I am looking for. Any info that can help me figure out this activity will be greatly appreciated. I can attach the syslog and an updated system stats for a longer period if needed. 

 

Thanks in advance and looking forward to everyone's feedback. 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited August 26, 20196 yr by Rock G

30 minutes ago, Rock G said:

Any info that can help me figure out this activity will be greatly appreciated.

By posting the diagnostics.  But, if you're logged into the GUI over the network and watching this, then the traffic you're seeing could very well be normal, as the mere act of generating the graphs is going to cause network traffic.  CPU usage, same as above (not including the background processes that every OS has)

1 minute ago, Squid said:

By posting the diagnostics.  But, if you're logged into the GUI over the network and watching this, then the traffic you're seeing could very well be normal, as the mere act of generating the graphs is going to cause network traffic.  CPU usage, same as above (not including the background processes that every OS has)

I suspected that as well but I never seemed to have noticed this activity in the graphs. I'm attaching the diagnostics and an updated screenshot that I just took. 

tower1-diagnostics-20190826-0123.zip

Nothing's particularly out of the ordinary.

 

Preclear continually does something in the background.  No biggie.  Cache dirs continually does its job.  I wouldn't worry about it.

using NerdPack  to install the iftop, it should tell you where you network traffic goes

4 hours ago, Squid said:

Nothing's particularly out of the ordinary.

 

Preclear continually does something in the background.  No biggie.  Cache dirs continually does its job.  I wouldn't worry about it.

 

Thanks Squid, I would've never picked that plugin to have a lurking background process. 

 

2 hours ago, trott said:

using NerdPack  to install the iftop, it should tell you where you network traffic goes

 

Ah yes, thank you for reminding me of Nerdpack. I've been trying to figure out how to install iftop and nethogs and stumbling along the way. I did notice a constant ping to sync the time with google.

 

Squid is probably right, there's nothing to worry about. It was something random that caught my attention and couldn't find a reason. If anyone else has any input, please feel free. I'll take it as in as good learning experience.