Internet activity

Is there any reason why my computer has a small burst of network activity every 10 seconds or so? (a couple of KB received and sent) And that is accompanied by disk activity. It happens even when I have no applications open (no dropbox etc...) and it's fresh from a restart.
I'm connected via ethernet (wifi not working under Lion...).
Thanks!
Michael

Michael,
You might try to use a third party program called "Little Snitch". It will tell you whenever a program on your computer is attempting to send something to the Internet. Alternately, "Growl" will tell you if something is being downloaded to your Mac.
If you would prefer to use what is on your Mac now, try opening Activity Moniter. It is in your Applications>Utilities folder. This will tell you all the processes that are open on your Mac and you might be able to see what process is active when you get this burst of Internet activity. You can sort the activities by name or percent CPU usage. Activity Monitor also allows you to see what it happening with memory use. I often use this program to see what might be slowing my computer or to see how much processing capacity a particular process is using.
Jay

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