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Probably nothing to do with the issue, but when you install debian there is an option to take part in the package survey thing which sends info back to debian on what packages are installed or something. It is opt-in but would that cause activity such as this ? Paul On 04/02/18 21:36, Simon Waters wrote: > Cleaning up vanilla Debian 9 desktop yesterday. Noticed PackageKit was repeatedly > downloading and verifying Debian release files, and messing with gpgv in the > background making performance choppy. > > This was happening quite frequently, maybe once a minute. > > I checked the obvious to me stuff but KDE was set to check for updates once a day. > All the packages were up to date. Does see why it would need to bother the mirrors > so frequently, I struggle to believe the files involved change that fast so maybe > a caching issue?! > > Is there some config setting or similar that does this? Do I really need > PackageKit? > > Itâs an old Debian 9 install but very lightly used and only used by me. I havenât > done much deep fiddling except poke X.org to work with headphones. So nothing Iâd > expect to upset PackageKitd. > > > > -- http://www.zleap.net diaspora : zleap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Torbay Tech Jam http://torbaytechjam.org.uk Next Tech jam 2nd Saturday of the month -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq