Why does the snapd service use so much data?
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I am on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Updated the system to the latest. Recently I noticed something unusual on Ubuntu with my Internet connection. My limited Internet quota was used up quickly by something invisible. As a user came from Windows this was something odd as Ubuntu never did such a thing to me. I installed nethogs and found out that the devil who vanished my data was /usr/lib/snapd/snapd
I found a somewhat similar question, but it does not answer what I am going to ask. Removing snapd from start up did not help either.
- Why does snapd use this much data?
Is there a way to stop those connections without disabling snap apps?
18.04 internet snap nethogs
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I am on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Updated the system to the latest. Recently I noticed something unusual on Ubuntu with my Internet connection. My limited Internet quota was used up quickly by something invisible. As a user came from Windows this was something odd as Ubuntu never did such a thing to me. I installed nethogs and found out that the devil who vanished my data was /usr/lib/snapd/snapd
I found a somewhat similar question, but it does not answer what I am going to ask. Removing snapd from start up did not help either.
- Why does snapd use this much data?
Is there a way to stop those connections without disabling snap apps?
18.04 internet snap nethogs
edited 21 hours ago
Zanna
51.3k13140243
asked 2 days ago
Nuwan ThisaraNuwan Thisara
1,03811435
How much is "this much data"? What is "My limited Internet quota"? Why do you assume snapd is "the devil who vanished my data"? What you've posted is a screenshot of a terminal window, that shows snapd downloading something at 1.4MBps at that moment. Does it prove anything?
– mikewhatever
2 days ago
@mikewhatever I have 500MB of data that is why it is called limited, in several minutes it is over without opening any apps, just booting up the system. It is a screenshot just to show what I found out. If you think this is not the reason, can you help me to figure out why my data quota is over within several minutes with no visible apps opened.
– Nuwan Thisara
2 days ago
Ubuntu updates itself in the background by default same as pretty much any OS. A newly installed system usually have hundreds of MB of updates. There is no apparent reason to believe that snapd is "the devil" or Ubuntu did something to you from what you've posted. 500MB is really limited, especially if the Ubuntu machine is not the only device using it.
– mikewhatever
2 days ago
@mikewhatever BTW this is not a newly installed system. I installed this version soon after it released.
– Nuwan Thisara
2 days ago
add a comment |
I am on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Updated the system to the latest. Recently I noticed something unusual on Ubuntu with my Internet connection. My limited Internet quota was used up quickly by something invisible. As a user came from Windows this was something odd as Ubuntu never did such a thing to me. I installed nethogs and found out that the devil who vanished my data was /usr/lib/snapd/snapd
I found a somewhat similar question, but it does not answer what I am going to ask. Removing snapd from start up did not help either.
- Why does snapd use this much data?
Is there a way to stop those connections without disabling snap apps?
18.04 internet snap nethogs
edited 21 hours ago
Zanna
51.3k13140243
asked 2 days ago
Nuwan ThisaraNuwan Thisara
1,03811435
I am on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Updated the system to the latest. Recently I noticed something unusual on Ubuntu with my Internet connection. My limited Internet quota was used up quickly by something invisible. As a user came from Windows this was something odd as Ubuntu never did such a thing to me. I installed nethogs and found out that the devil who vanished my data was /usr/lib/snapd/snapd
I found a somewhat similar question, but it does not answer what I am going to ask. Removing snapd from start up did not help either.
- Why does snapd use this much data?
Is there a way to stop those connections without disabling snap apps?
18.04 internet snap nethogs
18.04 internet snap nethogs
edited 21 hours ago
Zanna
51.3k13140243
asked 2 days ago
Nuwan ThisaraNuwan Thisara
1,03811435
edited 21 hours ago
Zanna
51.3k13140243
asked 2 days ago
Nuwan ThisaraNuwan Thisara
1,03811435
edited 21 hours ago
Zanna
51.3k13140243
edited 21 hours ago
Zanna
51.3k13140243
edited 21 hours ago
Zanna
51.3k13140243
51.3k13140243
asked 2 days ago
Nuwan ThisaraNuwan Thisara
1,03811435
asked 2 days ago
Nuwan ThisaraNuwan Thisara
1,03811435
asked 2 days ago
Nuwan ThisaraNuwan Thisara
1,03811435
1,03811435
How much is "this much data"? What is "My limited Internet quota"? Why do you assume snapd is "the devil who vanished my data"? What you've posted is a screenshot of a terminal window, that shows snapd downloading something at 1.4MBps at that moment. Does it prove anything?
– mikewhatever
2 days ago
@mikewhatever I have 500MB of data that is why it is called limited, in several minutes it is over without opening any apps, just booting up the system. It is a screenshot just to show what I found out. If you think this is not the reason, can you help me to figure out why my data quota is over within several minutes with no visible apps opened.
– Nuwan Thisara
2 days ago
Ubuntu updates itself in the background by default same as pretty much any OS. A newly installed system usually have hundreds of MB of updates. There is no apparent reason to believe that snapd is "the devil" or Ubuntu did something to you from what you've posted. 500MB is really limited, especially if the Ubuntu machine is not the only device using it.
– mikewhatever
2 days ago
@mikewhatever BTW this is not a newly installed system. I installed this version soon after it released.
– Nuwan Thisara
2 days ago
add a comment |
How much is "this much data"? What is "My limited Internet quota"? Why do you assume snapd is "the devil who vanished my data"? What you've posted is a screenshot of a terminal window, that shows snapd downloading something at 1.4MBps at that moment. Does it prove anything?
– mikewhatever
2 days ago
@mikewhatever I have 500MB of data that is why it is called limited, in several minutes it is over without opening any apps, just booting up the system. It is a screenshot just to show what I found out. If you think this is not the reason, can you help me to figure out why my data quota is over within several minutes with no visible apps opened.
– Nuwan Thisara
2 days ago
Ubuntu updates itself in the background by default same as pretty much any OS. A newly installed system usually have hundreds of MB of updates. There is no apparent reason to believe that snapd is "the devil" or Ubuntu did something to you from what you've posted. 500MB is really limited, especially if the Ubuntu machine is not the only device using it.
– mikewhatever
2 days ago
@mikewhatever BTW this is not a newly installed system. I installed this version soon after it released.
– Nuwan Thisara
2 days ago
How much is "this much data"? What is "My limited Internet quota"? Why do you assume snapd is "the devil who vanished my data"? What you've posted is a screenshot of a terminal window, that shows snapd downloading something at 1.4MBps at that moment. Does it prove anything?
– mikewhatever
2 days ago
How much is "this much data"? What is "My limited Internet quota"? Why do you assume snapd is "the devil who vanished my data"? What you've posted is a screenshot of a terminal window, that shows snapd downloading something at 1.4MBps at that moment. Does it prove anything?
– mikewhatever
2 days ago
@mikewhatever I have 500MB of data that is why it is called limited, in several minutes it is over without opening any apps, just booting up the system. It is a screenshot just to show what I found out. If you think this is not the reason, can you help me to figure out why my data quota is over within several minutes with no visible apps opened.
– Nuwan Thisara
2 days ago
@mikewhatever I have 500MB of data that is why it is called limited, in several minutes it is over without opening any apps, just booting up the system. It is a screenshot just to show what I found out. If you think this is not the reason, can you help me to figure out why my data quota is over within several minutes with no visible apps opened.
– Nuwan Thisara
2 days ago
Ubuntu updates itself in the background by default same as pretty much any OS. A newly installed system usually have hundreds of MB of updates. There is no apparent reason to believe that snapd is "the devil" or Ubuntu did something to you from what you've posted. 500MB is really limited, especially if the Ubuntu machine is not the only device using it.
– mikewhatever
2 days ago
Ubuntu updates itself in the background by default same as pretty much any OS. A newly installed system usually have hundreds of MB of updates. There is no apparent reason to believe that snapd is "the devil" or Ubuntu did something to you from what you've posted. 500MB is really limited, especially if the Ubuntu machine is not the only device using it.
– mikewhatever
2 days ago
@mikewhatever BTW this is not a newly installed system. I installed this version soon after it released.
– Nuwan Thisara
2 days ago
@mikewhatever BTW this is not a newly installed system. I installed this version soon after it released.
– Nuwan Thisara
2 days ago
add a comment |
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By default, snaps are set to refresh themselves 4 times per day. If you are using many snaps, this could be a data intensive process for you.
Perhaps limiting the number of times per day that the snaps refresh would help. You can adjust this on your system with
sudo snap set system refresh.timer=fri,15:00
to set the update of snaps to occur on Friday at 15:00, or tell snapd that you are using a metered connection:
sudo snap set system refresh.metered=hold
I suspect (but cannot prove) that snapd looks at the "Restrict Background Data" flag of the network connection (as shown in the image below), to determine that the connection is metered. If you choose to set your connections to "metered" then to update your snaps, you will need to
sudo snap refresh
on occastion, just as you would occasionally sudo apt update and sudo apt upgrade
=====
For more information on this, please see https://docs.snapcraft.io/system-options/87
answered 2 days ago
Charles GreenCharles Green
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Thank you very much for your answer. I will try this and tell you if my problem is fixed.
– Nuwan Thisara
2 days ago
@NuwanThisara I hope that it does what you need! You may also want to consider disabling the auto update services for apt.
– Charles Green
2 days ago
I set the refresh time to fri.15:00 but when I tested nethogs just after system boot, snapd was running and downloading something consuming data. I stopped it. What is the problem?
– Nuwan Thisara
2 days ago
Trysudo snap set system refresh.timerto see if the setting holds over reboot. I would hope so, but I don't use snaps. This is actually part of the reason why.
– Charles Green
2 days ago
1
@NuwanThisara Becausesnapdis a service and needs to be running to load your snaps, it has to start at boot time to manage the applications that you have loaded using it. I do hope that setting the refresh interval to once per week will help with the data consumption, as the only alternative that I know of, is setting the internet connection to a 'metered' connection, which may be good for your situation anyhow.
– Charles Green
14 hours ago
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By default, snaps are set to refresh themselves 4 times per day. If you are using many snaps, this could be a data intensive process for you.
Perhaps limiting the number of times per day that the snaps refresh would help. You can adjust this on your system with
sudo snap set system refresh.timer=fri,15:00
to set the update of snaps to occur on Friday at 15:00, or tell snapd that you are using a metered connection:
sudo snap set system refresh.metered=hold
I suspect (but cannot prove) that snapd looks at the "Restrict Background Data" flag of the network connection (as shown in the image below), to determine that the connection is metered. If you choose to set your connections to "metered" then to update your snaps, you will need to
sudo snap refresh
on occastion, just as you would occasionally sudo apt update and sudo apt upgrade
=====
For more information on this, please see https://docs.snapcraft.io/system-options/87
answered 2 days ago
Charles GreenCharles Green
14.2k73959
Thank you very much for your answer. I will try this and tell you if my problem is fixed.
– Nuwan Thisara
2 days ago
@NuwanThisara I hope that it does what you need! You may also want to consider disabling the auto update services for apt.
– Charles Green
2 days ago
I set the refresh time to fri.15:00 but when I tested nethogs just after system boot, snapd was running and downloading something consuming data. I stopped it. What is the problem?
– Nuwan Thisara
2 days ago
Trysudo snap set system refresh.timerto see if the setting holds over reboot. I would hope so, but I don't use snaps. This is actually part of the reason why.
– Charles Green
2 days ago
1
@NuwanThisara Becausesnapdis a service and needs to be running to load your snaps, it has to start at boot time to manage the applications that you have loaded using it. I do hope that setting the refresh interval to once per week will help with the data consumption, as the only alternative that I know of, is setting the internet connection to a 'metered' connection, which may be good for your situation anyhow.
– Charles Green
14 hours ago
|
show 5 more comments
By default, snaps are set to refresh themselves 4 times per day. If you are using many snaps, this could be a data intensive process for you.
Perhaps limiting the number of times per day that the snaps refresh would help. You can adjust this on your system with
sudo snap set system refresh.timer=fri,15:00
to set the update of snaps to occur on Friday at 15:00, or tell snapd that you are using a metered connection:
sudo snap set system refresh.metered=hold
I suspect (but cannot prove) that snapd looks at the "Restrict Background Data" flag of the network connection (as shown in the image below), to determine that the connection is metered. If you choose to set your connections to "metered" then to update your snaps, you will need to
sudo snap refresh
on occastion, just as you would occasionally sudo apt update and sudo apt upgrade
=====
For more information on this, please see https://docs.snapcraft.io/system-options/87
answered 2 days ago
Charles GreenCharles Green
14.2k73959
Thank you very much for your answer. I will try this and tell you if my problem is fixed.
– Nuwan Thisara
2 days ago
@NuwanThisara I hope that it does what you need! You may also want to consider disabling the auto update services for apt.
– Charles Green
2 days ago
I set the refresh time to fri.15:00 but when I tested nethogs just after system boot, snapd was running and downloading something consuming data. I stopped it. What is the problem?
– Nuwan Thisara
2 days ago
Trysudo snap set system refresh.timerto see if the setting holds over reboot. I would hope so, but I don't use snaps. This is actually part of the reason why.
– Charles Green
2 days ago
1
@NuwanThisara Becausesnapdis a service and needs to be running to load your snaps, it has to start at boot time to manage the applications that you have loaded using it. I do hope that setting the refresh interval to once per week will help with the data consumption, as the only alternative that I know of, is setting the internet connection to a 'metered' connection, which may be good for your situation anyhow.
– Charles Green
14 hours ago
|
show 5 more comments
By default, snaps are set to refresh themselves 4 times per day. If you are using many snaps, this could be a data intensive process for you.
Perhaps limiting the number of times per day that the snaps refresh would help. You can adjust this on your system with
sudo snap set system refresh.timer=fri,15:00
to set the update of snaps to occur on Friday at 15:00, or tell snapd that you are using a metered connection:
sudo snap set system refresh.metered=hold
I suspect (but cannot prove) that snapd looks at the "Restrict Background Data" flag of the network connection (as shown in the image below), to determine that the connection is metered. If you choose to set your connections to "metered" then to update your snaps, you will need to
sudo snap refresh
on occastion, just as you would occasionally sudo apt update and sudo apt upgrade
=====
For more information on this, please see https://docs.snapcraft.io/system-options/87
answered 2 days ago
Charles GreenCharles Green
14.2k73959
By default, snaps are set to refresh themselves 4 times per day. If you are using many snaps, this could be a data intensive process for you.
Perhaps limiting the number of times per day that the snaps refresh would help. You can adjust this on your system with
sudo snap set system refresh.timer=fri,15:00
to set the update of snaps to occur on Friday at 15:00, or tell snapd that you are using a metered connection:
sudo snap set system refresh.metered=hold
I suspect (but cannot prove) that snapd looks at the "Restrict Background Data" flag of the network connection (as shown in the image below), to determine that the connection is metered. If you choose to set your connections to "metered" then to update your snaps, you will need to
sudo snap refresh
on occastion, just as you would occasionally sudo apt update and sudo apt upgrade
=====
For more information on this, please see https://docs.snapcraft.io/system-options/87
answered 2 days ago
Charles GreenCharles Green
14.2k73959
edited 2 days ago
answered 2 days ago
Charles GreenCharles Green
14.2k73959
answered 2 days ago
Charles GreenCharles Green
14.2k73959
answered 2 days ago
Charles GreenCharles Green
14.2k73959
14.2k73959
Thank you very much for your answer. I will try this and tell you if my problem is fixed.
– Nuwan Thisara
2 days ago
@NuwanThisara I hope that it does what you need! You may also want to consider disabling the auto update services for apt.
– Charles Green
2 days ago
I set the refresh time to fri.15:00 but when I tested nethogs just after system boot, snapd was running and downloading something consuming data. I stopped it. What is the problem?
– Nuwan Thisara
2 days ago
Trysudo snap set system refresh.timerto see if the setting holds over reboot. I would hope so, but I don't use snaps. This is actually part of the reason why.
– Charles Green
2 days ago
1
@NuwanThisara Becausesnapdis a service and needs to be running to load your snaps, it has to start at boot time to manage the applications that you have loaded using it. I do hope that setting the refresh interval to once per week will help with the data consumption, as the only alternative that I know of, is setting the internet connection to a 'metered' connection, which may be good for your situation anyhow.
– Charles Green
14 hours ago
|
show 5 more comments
Thank you very much for your answer. I will try this and tell you if my problem is fixed.
– Nuwan Thisara
2 days ago
@NuwanThisara I hope that it does what you need! You may also want to consider disabling the auto update services for apt.
– Charles Green
2 days ago
I set the refresh time to fri.15:00 but when I tested nethogs just after system boot, snapd was running and downloading something consuming data. I stopped it. What is the problem?
– Nuwan Thisara
2 days ago
Trysudo snap set system refresh.timerto see if the setting holds over reboot. I would hope so, but I don't use snaps. This is actually part of the reason why.
– Charles Green
2 days ago
1
@NuwanThisara Becausesnapdis a service and needs to be running to load your snaps, it has to start at boot time to manage the applications that you have loaded using it. I do hope that setting the refresh interval to once per week will help with the data consumption, as the only alternative that I know of, is setting the internet connection to a 'metered' connection, which may be good for your situation anyhow.
– Charles Green
14 hours ago
Thank you very much for your answer. I will try this and tell you if my problem is fixed.
– Nuwan Thisara
2 days ago
Thank you very much for your answer. I will try this and tell you if my problem is fixed.
– Nuwan Thisara
2 days ago
@NuwanThisara I hope that it does what you need! You may also want to consider disabling the auto update services for apt.
– Charles Green
2 days ago
@NuwanThisara I hope that it does what you need! You may also want to consider disabling the auto update services for apt.
– Charles Green
2 days ago
I set the refresh time to fri.15:00 but when I tested nethogs just after system boot, snapd was running and downloading something consuming data. I stopped it. What is the problem?
– Nuwan Thisara
2 days ago
I set the refresh time to fri.15:00 but when I tested nethogs just after system boot, snapd was running and downloading something consuming data. I stopped it. What is the problem?
– Nuwan Thisara
2 days ago
Try
sudo snap set system refresh.timer to see if the setting holds over reboot. I would hope so, but I don't use snaps. This is actually part of the reason why.– Charles Green
2 days ago
Try
sudo snap set system refresh.timer to see if the setting holds over reboot. I would hope so, but I don't use snaps. This is actually part of the reason why.– Charles Green
2 days ago
1
1
@NuwanThisara Because
snapd is a service and needs to be running to load your snaps, it has to start at boot time to manage the applications that you have loaded using it. I do hope that setting the refresh interval to once per week will help with the data consumption, as the only alternative that I know of, is setting the internet connection to a 'metered' connection, which may be good for your situation anyhow.– Charles Green
14 hours ago
@NuwanThisara Because
snapd is a service and needs to be running to load your snaps, it has to start at boot time to manage the applications that you have loaded using it. I do hope that setting the refresh interval to once per week will help with the data consumption, as the only alternative that I know of, is setting the internet connection to a 'metered' connection, which may be good for your situation anyhow.– Charles Green
14 hours ago
|
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How much is "this much data"? What is "My limited Internet quota"? Why do you assume snapd is "the devil who vanished my data"? What you've posted is a screenshot of a terminal window, that shows snapd downloading something at 1.4MBps at that moment. Does it prove anything?
– mikewhatever
2 days ago
@mikewhatever I have 500MB of data that is why it is called limited, in several minutes it is over without opening any apps, just booting up the system. It is a screenshot just to show what I found out. If you think this is not the reason, can you help me to figure out why my data quota is over within several minutes with no visible apps opened.
– Nuwan Thisara
2 days ago
Ubuntu updates itself in the background by default same as pretty much any OS. A newly installed system usually have hundreds of MB of updates. There is no apparent reason to believe that snapd is "the devil" or Ubuntu did something to you from what you've posted. 500MB is really limited, especially if the Ubuntu machine is not the only device using it.
– mikewhatever
2 days ago
@mikewhatever BTW this is not a newly installed system. I installed this version soon after it released.
– Nuwan Thisara
2 days ago