Why is there network activity in the background?

rizkysyazuli · 2014-05-16 10:32:08 UTC

I’m seeing network activity by Atom in the background. Even when it’s idle. Where is it coming from? Is it downloading updates or something?

jedthehumanoid · 2014-05-16 11:14:22 UTC

If i would guess, yes its updates through APM package manager

Looks like atom-shell updates is located on amazon-servers (see code below)
And other atom packages is located on atom.io server

And there is also the metrics package that sends metrics to google analytics.

github.com

atom/apm/blob/f79e02ccf2912fbffdbb864b61559bb5aa30e48b/src/config.coffee#L38


            callback("#{appLocation}/Contents/Resources/app")
        when 'linux'
          process.nextTick -> callback('/usr/local/share/atom/resources/app')
        when 'win32'
          process.nextTick -> callback(path.join(process.env.ProgramFiles, 'Atom', 'resources', 'app'))


getReposDirectory: ->
  process.env.ATOM_REPOS_HOME ? path.join(@getHomeDirectory(), 'github')


getNodeUrl: ->
  process.env.ATOM_NODE_URL ? 'https://gh-contractor-zcbenz.s3.amazonaws.com/atom-shell/dist'


getAtomPackagesUrl: ->
  process.env.ATOM_PACKAGES_URL ? 'https://atom.io/api/packages'


getNodeVersion: ->
  process.env.ATOM_NODE_VERSION ? '0.11.10'


getNodeArch: ->
  switch process.platform
    when 'darwin' then 'x64'

rizkysyazuli · 2014-05-16 12:12:18 UTC

@jedthehumanoid noted. just curious because they didn’t prompt us about it like other apps.