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why is my internet faster with gnome-system-monitor up?

Asked by Patrick Bossman

Hello,
I switched ISPs and now have Verizon FIOS. The upload/download is 25/10 mbps.

On my Windows XP box, I regularly achieve these speeds.
On my Linux box, I was capping out at around 10/10. The Linux box has a gigabit ethernet card connected to gigabit router then through the ISP router (same path as the XP box).

I re-installed Ubuntu 9.04 fresh, still getting 10/10.

Here's where things get weird and unexplainable.

So I started gnome-system-monitor and performed the speed test again.
I obtained faster speeds - 24 / 14. I re-ran the test again, around 24/14.

So I shut down gnome-system-monitor and re-ran the test again. Back down to 10/10.

So my question is, what is gnome-system-monitor doing to speed up my connection? Has anyone observed anything like this?

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