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In my laptop I installed Ubuntu 18.04 LTS OS as a dual boot OS alongside of Microsoft Windows 10 OS. I stopped the automatic update process. Normally I connecting my laptop with mobile tethering based Wi-Fi hotspot. Recently my laptop consumes more than 1 GB of internet data within few minutes when connecting it without doing any internet access process by manually with frequently. So I tried USB tethering also and I faced same problem. What may be the reasonable causes for my problem and how to resolve it. Guide me to resolve my problem. Thanks in advance.

Akib Azmain Turja
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    Perhaps you have many snap apps installed? You can check by running `snap list`. [This many be useful](https://askubuntu.com/q/930593/480481). – pomsky Aug 05 '19 at 14:31
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    You can find out which processes have internet connections open with `sudo lsof -i` – waltinator Aug 05 '19 at 16:54
  • Is it your browser consuming bandwidth? What happens with reboot and no chrome or Firefox? – WinEunuuchs2Unix Aug 05 '19 at 19:16
  • @pomsky: As per your suggested link Now I ran the command [sudo snap set system refresh.metered=hold] Thank for your response. – user1999109 Aug 06 '19 at 04:29
  • @waltinator as per your suggestion the sudo lsof -i command gives all are 0 sizes.. I couldn't understand from that.. Thanks for your response.. – user1999109 Aug 06 '19 at 04:31
  • @WinEunuuchs2Unix: The data consumed when connect to the wi-fi without opening any browser or any other human activity. – user1999109 Aug 06 '19 at 04:35
  • I installed pycharm. Is it update automatically? if possible suggest me which are all the common softwares updates automatically. Anyhow I stopped automatic update in software & updates – user1999109 Aug 06 '19 at 04:37
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    "Anyhow I stopped automatic update in software & updates" that does NOT stop snap updates. neither does `sudo snap set system refresh.metered=hold` snaps WILL update at some point in time. Did you check the online accounts? Those should be "off" by default. Also apport/whoopsie can go to the outside (though not 1Gb :) ) see https://askubuntu.com/questions/93457/how-do-i-enable-or-disable-apport – Rinzwind Aug 08 '19 at 13:58
  • @ Rinzwind : As per your link.. Some answer was to stop/mask the apport service. But, one answer was "do not stop apport, it will create problem if any crash happens". What may be is my right choice? – user1999109 Aug 09 '19 at 05:46

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