[PLUG] Excessive LAN traffic

[Dwight Hubbard]

Run IPtraf, it gives a good summary of the breakdown of the network traffic.

On Tuesday 12 January 2010 11:59:40 am drew wymore wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Sean Whitney 
<sean.whitney at gmail.com>wrote:
> > I recently replaced my NFS server with a new Intel dual processor
> > machine.
> >
> > The moment I turned it on, I noticed that between it an my workstation
> > there is a constant 25Mb/s of NFS read traffic, regardless of my
> > activity.
> >
> > My wife's workstation doesn't have this issue.
> >
> > The main difference between these two workstations is that my
> > workstation is running Karmic Koala.
> >
> > I thought it might have been Beagle, but I stopped all the Beagle
> > processes that I could and it made no difference.  Logging out did stop
> > it.
> >
> > I am having issues tracking down what the cause of this behavior is....
> >
> > Has anyone else seen this type of behavior?
> >
> >
> > Sean
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> I haven't seen anything like this but using something like wireshark or
> tcpdump should be able to tell you what is causes the thrashing across the
> network.
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