[mythtvnz] Internet Traffic

[Nick Rout]

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 8:48 PM, Tortise <tortise at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jason Haar" <jhaar-ourshack-com at whanau.org>
> To: <mythtvnz at lists.linuxnut.co.nz>
> Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 10:02 PM
> Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] HVR-1200 and EPG...
>
>
>> On 12/17/2009 02:48 PM, Steve Hodge wrote:
>>>
>>>     Gee its a whole 1.2MB. Not going to break anyones bandwidth limit
>>>     (except perhaps the server if its on a residential connection).
>>>
>>> Yep, those are the reasons why no one has done anything about it.
>>
>> Too right. If anyone cared enough, rsync would be the perfect solution.
>> You just re-download the same file every day, and it'll figure out the
>> bits that have changed and only sends them
>>
>> But for 1Meg?...
>  _______________________________________________
>
> Interesting discussion.  Ideally there'd be a file for each day, so that only the missing days were actually downloaded, other
> refinements also could be done, I am not suggesting that be a priority.....

But there can be lineup changes for ANY day. When you run
mythfilldatabase you are not just adding a day.

>
> however...
>
> I've been checking out why I have a large hourly traffic spike that lasts about 2 minutes @ ~500kbps, same time each hour is
> occurring on my network.  I caught about 200 new states during one of these, all feeding my myth BE box - receiving data from movie
> databases at
>
> http://72.21.211.32/

imdb

> http://207.171.166.140/

imdb

> http://api.themoviedb.org/2.1/
>

self explanatory

> It seems to me if one is worried about traffic load, one should look for the major traffic sources first....
>
> These sites seem to be all about movie information, - at a guess the images seen on the recording page screen, can I turn those off
> somewhere to confirm that is the source?  (This is on 0.22)

I am not on 0.22 but I am sure you should be able to turn this off. If
you want to see what program is doing this run

sudo netstat -tanp

during one of the spikes.

>
> While they look smart I prefer to be able to read the fore text without their visual interference.  IMO they'd have been better
> taking up a window and not the whole screen.
>
> Anyway does level of traffic warrant some discussion?

Not really IMHO. But if it does require discussion I would have
thought the mythtv-users list was the place for it.