excessive download of data

[koshikas]

i still cant say how it happens, but sometimes all of a sudden, feeder consumes in excess of 1GB(sometimes even 2GB) of data for no reason. i havent subscribed to any heavy feeds as such.

[spacecowboy]

That is quite crazy.

A feed is only a couple of 100 kilobytes, max, typically. So it's not that.

Have you enabled "full article by default" on any feeds? I would guess that is where it happens.

[spacecowboy]

Are you using the Device Sync feature?

[koshikas]

nope

[spacecowboy]

Crazy idea. You can't by any chance see traffic statistics on your WiFi router by any chance? See if there is a particular website related to the traffic?

[koshikas]

let me do that going forward, will report back with my findings

[koshikas]

so i did manage to get some hold of the situation. i ran a "pcap" of Feeder, and found sourceforge's RSS feeds to be the culprit in my case. seems like the RSS feed somehow triggers a data downstream for no reason from one of the mirrors where its file are hosted. i've since unsubscribed from all sourceforge feeds and it seems the massive data downloads are no more.

i've attached a PCAP report last time i encountered the issue with sourceforges's feeds, for your reference. from my limited investigations i think it was this feed (in OPML form) that caused it;
outline xmlUrl="https://sourceforge.net/projects/crystaldiskinfo/rss?path=/" title="CrystalDiskInfo"

PCAPdroid_31_Aug_23_59_43.csv

[marzagheddon]

[spacecowboy]

Please be constructive in your remarks.

[Mr-Bajs]

Have some high Wi-Fi data usage too. Atleast it seems that to me.

• Jun 9-Jul 7 - Foreground 0,165 GB Background 0,99 GB
• Jul 7-Aug 4 - Foreground 1,11 GB Background 4,59 GB
• Aug 4-Sept 1 - Foreground 0,89 GB Background 3,72 GB
• Sep 1-Sep 29 - Foreground 0,98 GB Background 4,42 GB

[spacecowboy]

Again, I have no idea why this is happening. It doesn't happen to myself. So I really need help to pin this problem down.

I have enabled issues on the project now. Would appreciate if someone could make a bug report and fill in the details there

[Mr-Bajs]

Just a wild guess.
Could the data somehow go trough Feeder when you open an article with web view and then any continous browsing in browser somehow be considered be with Feeder anyhow?

[spacecowboy]

Sounds unlikely, but have no idea if it's possible to be honest.