From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 8 13:20:33 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A78F1065670 for ; Mon, 8 Nov 2010 13:20:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from duncan.young@pobox.com) Received: from out3.smtp.messagingengine.com (out3.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 573448FC16 for ; Mon, 8 Nov 2010 13:20:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.41]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C326E410 for ; Mon, 8 Nov 2010 08:04:09 -0500 (EST) Received: from frontend1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 08 Nov 2010 08:04:09 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: imtmcAT1lo/K+GhphQqn9qSv1oLOC22p1qFY+fIiINja 1289221448 Received: from triple0.internal (c122-108-168-198.rochd4.qld.optusnet.com.au [122.108.168.198]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BB31440117B for ; Mon, 8 Nov 2010 08:04:08 -0500 (EST) Received: from triple0.internal (triple0 [192.168.0.50]) by triple0.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3206553A9D for ; Mon, 8 Nov 2010 23:04:04 +1000 (EST) From: Duncan Young To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 23:04:01 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/8.1-RELEASE; KDE/4.5.2; amd64; ; ) References: <20101102034203.GA4799@thought.org> <20101103055000.GB4073@thought.org> <20101103055527.GA11737@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20101103055527.GA11737@dan.emsphone.com> X-KMail-Markup: true MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <201011082304.02065.duncan.young@pobox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: is there a utillity...? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 13:20:33 -0000 On Wed, 3 Nov 2010 03:55:28 pm Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Nov 02), Gary Kline said: > > On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 01:44:37AM +0000, Bruce Cran wrote: > > > On Wednesday 03 November 2010 01:17:00 Gary Kline wrote: > > > > The Bps Down is supposed to me 1M. Up is 864Kbps. I spent hours > > > > googling around and trying things. So far, not much. ---It occured > > > > that I _might_ be geting the full thru-put; that it is data that is > > > > flowing in via the background that stalls things. (I have just shut > > > > off the automated flow.) > > > > > > You can run "systat -if" to see how much bandwidth is being used by the > > > computer. At 1M you should see around 120KB/s downlink. > > > > Yes... outstanding. Is there any sort of GUI app tat has this in a geaph > > or histogram? > > Not a gui app, but I use "netstat -I em0 1" a lot to watch my network > activity. Replace em0 with your nic device. Gkrellm is a gui app that > gives you little network histograms for each interface, but they're little :) > > Text based real time graphing: slurm