Sia bandwidth consumption increase after Oct 31st Hardfork
BUG REPORT
Expected Behavior
Minor increase in gateway bandwidth consumption.
Observed Behavior
Massive increase in gateway bandwidth consumption.
How to reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible)
Start Sia v1.3.7 without renting or hosting and monitor your bandwidth usage.
Environment
- Sia version: 1.3.7
- OS: Linux
I first noticed the increased usage when I blew through my 1TB datacap in the first week of November. This is highly unusual for me and I discovered that one of my Sia VMs was using my bandwidth as fast as it could. I am not renting or hosting from this VM. I don't have any files on Sia so it's not repairing and I'm not a bootstrap node.
The screenshot below shows the network traffic on one of my Sia VMs (no hosting or renting on this VM), the green spike begins on October 31st, and runs until I hit my datacap and shut down the VM.
This same issue has been reported by several different users in Discord and Reddit.
Reddit conversation with 2 users reporting excessive bandwidth usage: https://www.reddit.com/r/siacoin/comments/9xqwc9/can_we_get_verbose_logs/