This process keeps hogging my bandwidth:What does this process do? Is it safe to kill it?Is is safe toremove the package as a whole( to prevent it from starting up everagain)Or should I just prevent it from automatically running in the background again?I am running Fedora 23.
What does the process /usr/libexec/packagekitd do?
fedora;background process;bandwidth
PackageKit is being run by GNOME Software. It's not doing automatic updates, but it is downloading them so they're ready. There is work on making this be smarter, including not doing it over bandwidth-constrained connections, but it hasn't landed yet. In the meantime, you can disable this by running:dconf write /org/gnome/software/download-updates falseor by using the GUI dconf editor and unchecking the download-updates box under org > gnome > software:Note that this is per-user. For changing the default for everyone, see the GNOME docs.