Hi. On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 01:27:39PM -0500, Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 15 Nov 2018 06:56:19 -0500 > Anil Duggirala <anilduggir...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > > > Hello, > > Ive got 2 questions: > > 1. The process gnome-software is downloading up of 10 MB every time (or > > many times) I connect to the internet, this is killing my internet data > > quota. > > Can someone tell me how to disable this, what exactly is gnome-software > > doing (it does not seem to be searching for updates)? > > > > 2. Is there a way to set a metered connection in debian so every time I > > connect using usb tethering the system knows not to use more data than > > completely necessary at the time? > > Or every time I use a particular connection it know not to use more data > > than necessary? > > That would seem to be quite a tall order - network access is requested > by individual applications, so how would a system-wide framework have a > way to tell how important each individual application's network access > request is?
net_cls cgroup controller. QoS, traffic accounting, shaping, outbound connection control - you name it, it can be built on top of it. > There would have to be some framework under which each > network access request would have some sort of priority description > attached to it. I doubt such a thing exists. It does exist, but it's unused currently (to my best knowledge). systemd may be controversial, but they got one thing right - per-service resource control. And that includes so-called 'user services' that GNOME programs start left and right and all other. So the framework is there. The problem is - they left the implementation of the policy of the user ☺ > An application firewall might be useful here, but I have no experience > with such them. You're thinking of user traffic accounting. Reco
