From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Weather thingy using up my network, ALL THE TIME.
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2012 12:14:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201209021214.35299.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <504310B3.8050502@gmail.com>
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On Sunday 02 Sep 2012 08:54:27 Dale wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I have this little weather "applet" thingy down at the bottom of my
> desktop in the thing I think they call the panel. Anyway, the weather
> thing has been sending something for HOURS now. I have logged out of
> KDE, reset the network and even the router just to see if it would die.
> As soon as I login or the router comes back up, it start sending data
> again. I can't get it to stop. As a last resort, I took the thing off
> my panel thingy. It still sends data like crazy.
I clicked on my Weather Forecast applet settings and it also started sending
packets to wetter.com - despite the fact that I have set it to connect to the
BBC weather RSS feed. Hmm ...
> Does anyone know how to kill this thing? I'd like to surf the net
> without this thing hogging up my DSL connection.
It's not using that many packets, but I agree that it is annoying.
The solution is to kill the kio_http that was running it. Use ps, top, lsof
as you prefer to find which PID you should kill.
> While I am at it. I'm supposed to get my weather stuff from NOAA or at
> least that is where it came from ages ago. Ever since I went from KDE3
> to KDE4, it wants to come from wetter.com which doesn't work to begin
> with. This is what I think it is doing to my network. It is trying to
> get data that doesn't exist to begin with so it just keeps trying.
> Anybody know how to beat this thing silly? By the way, using iftop,
> that is where all this traffic is going to.
I am not sure if wetter.com is hardcoded somewhere. In my
.kde4/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc I can see my BBC URI in the
weather applet settings, but nothing about wetter.com.
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Regards,
Mick
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-02 11:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-02 7:54 [gentoo-user] Weather thingy using up my network, ALL THE TIME Dale
2012-09-02 10:45 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2012-09-02 11:14 ` Mick [this message]
2012-09-02 11:41 ` Dale
2012-09-02 12:26 ` Mick
2012-09-05 2:03 ` Dale
2012-09-05 1:38 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-09-05 1:56 ` Dale
2012-09-05 10:51 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-09-05 11:02 ` Dale
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