The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/FourtyMichaelMichael on 2025-02-21 20:53:46.
Using Mullvad to get around my work DNS filters, 25.4 and Linux Mint.
I was using a localhosted python driven website (a gradio instance) and noticed it was extremely laggy. Then the program’s console started complaining of lost HTTP sockets, and it just got worse.
Turns out two things…
- The DAITA traffic is wild. For every request you make, you end up transmitting more and receiving more, but what looks to me like receiving more than you’re sending. I get how it works now I think.
- This absolutely seems to be saturating my local traffic as well. Maybe not in bandwidth, but along with low system ram availability enough to cause really hard to diagnose issues. I spent an embarassing amount of time removing and re-installing python packages, I now hate pip, only to figure out that my VPN software seems to have taken a nose dive.
- This 95% went away with DIATA off, but I saw a couple of cases since that I think the Linux program is causing problems with local traffic when the system memory is occupied by pytorch.
Wild stuff. If it’s bug, I hope they fix it soon. I think it may have gotten better with 2025.5. But I don’t trust it right now.
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