Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 10:32:02 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>, RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is there a utillity...? Message-ID: <20101103173202.GB5700@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20101103055527.GA11737@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20101102034203.GA4799@thought.org> <20101102085003.58ce8202@gumby.homeunix.com> <20101103011700.GB3490@thought.org> <201011030144.37369.bruce@cran.org.uk> <20101103055000.GB4073@thought.org> <20101103055527.GA11737@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 12:55:28AM -0500, 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 :)
>
Thanks for the insights! I'll check them out. ("Small is
beautiful") ...
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> Dan Nelson
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