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Hello,

I'm planning to use my RPi in an industrial environment with a M2M data subscription and therefore I would like to reduce the internet usage as much as possible. I'm using ArchLinux and I'm looking to disable autoupdating services and planned jobs etc.

Any advice or points I should be paying attention to to reduce the 'idle' data usage as much as possible? Every suggestion is appreciated!

Thanks in advance

Hi,

IceBlackz wrote:Any advice or points I should be paying attention to to reduce the 'idle' data usage as much as possible?

A brute force approach is to configure your firewall to let just output traffic to your application peer. This would offer you the traffic control at one point only and is actually "fire & forget" solution since it works well also if you add any new tool/app.


Best wishes, Ivan Zilic.

As far as I know, there is no auto-updating on the Pi in Arch Linux except for the daemon that checks the time, and that can be disabled, although I do not recall it's name, something like ntpd. If you don't mind setting the time manually, I don't think that daemon is needed.

There aren't a whole lot of things that run automatically - of cron jobs - and I would be concerned about not letting the system run those jobs that make sure everything on the system is in working order.

Are you asking for advice specifically about M2M? I had never heard of that. If you installed specific software for that, the answer would depend on that software, read the man page, see if there are user options in a config or rc file.