Macos – Why is Postgres sending network traffic on OSx

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I was looking through my Activity Monitor seeing if there was anything running that was hogging my network and noticed that Postgres has the largest amount of bytes sent.

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Now the numbers aren't huge and I am positive this isn't the cause of my slow internet but I don't understand why Postgres would be going out over the network at all?

Relevent Details

  • OSx Yosemite with latest patches installed.
  • postgres (PostgreSQL) 9.3.5

Best Answer

The Activity Monitor captures local network traffic as well and it seems like Postgres has some statistic collection that runs locally.

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