[PLUG] Logging network use while using Zoom

Dick Steffens dick at dicksteffens.com
Thu May 13 22:12:08 UTC 2021


On 5/13/21 12:23 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote:

> I know that Russell is aware of this, but it's worth noting that 
> aggregate numbers won't necessarily be limited to your Zoom session. 
> Your package manager may be configured to look for updates every once 
> in a while; a cron job may kick off a network session; any local 
> network filesystem activity can bump the aggregate.
>
> Perhaps none of those scenarios applies to your system during the Zoom 
> call, but beware that they will impact your numbers.

If the package manger goes out and looks for stuff, that won't be a 
large amount of data, and I don't have anything set to automatically 
download updates. Also, there are no cron jobs that I've set up, nor 
local network activity during the meeting.

Thanks for the clarification.


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Regards,

Dick Steffens




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