cloudd & nsurlsessiond consuming all my bandwidth
Hello.
I’m running 10.10.03 (as of last night, the official release; for several weeks prior, the beta release — but I couldn’t whine because it was beta software).
The processes cloudd and nssessionurld are hogging all my network’s bandwidth, generating enormous amounts of traffic… several gigabytes per hour, every hour, always, totally clogging my internet connection to the point that DNS resolutions fail and ping-times to Google’s canonical address go from being 8-9 ms to being in the region of 250, maybe even 300 ms, with about 10% dropped packets.
I know it is these two processes because Activity Monitor shows them to be generating this traffic; furthermore, force-quitting them from within Activity Monitor causes the problem to momentarily cease, until they get respawned and resume their heathen task.
(Might be relevant: I have activated the Photos online sharing service… but the library is apparently fully synched up, and has been for ages, so occasional daily incremental variations should be slight.)
So basically, what are they doing? Why do they keep doing it? What are they sending where and, most importantly, how do I either configure them to undertake less obnoxious behaviour or, failing that, throttle them down to a maximum that doesn’t bring my network to its knees?
(Speaking of which, I have a 1 Mbps uplink, 100 Mbps downlink ADSL link with the premiere service in the region… the usual behaviour is rock solid… and remains rock solid when I disconnect my machine from the network and use other devices to verify performance etc.)
