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OrionFyre

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Registered: 2008-03-16

Posts: 68

Determining network usage by program

How can I determine what programs are utilizing shares of bandwidth?

n0dix

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Registered: 2009-09-22

Posts: 956

Re: Determining network usage by program

You can try:

community/bwbar 1.2.3-1
    Generates text and graphical readout of the current bandwidth usage.
community/bwm-ng 0.6-2
    A small and simple console-based live bandwidth monitor

DonVla

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From: Bonn, Germany

Registered: 2007-06-07

Posts: 997

Re: Determining network usage by program

You can try:

community/bwbar 1.2.3-1
    Generates text and graphical readout of the current bandwidth usage.
community/bwm-ng 0.6-2
    A small and simple console-based live bandwidth monitor

Yes, but these show only the whole  not per app bandwidth usage.
Afais, there is no program which shows the direct bandwidth usage of a given program.
I use a mixture  of pktstat which shows the open connections and the usage of each connection and netstat (netstat -teenap).
bwm-ng is ok, better than slurm I think. Though slurm has a nicer interface.

Last edited by DonVla (2010-01-31 17:16:09)

n0dix

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Registered: 2009-09-22

Posts: 956

Re: Determining network usage by program

What about nethogs? http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=4526

DonVla

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From: Bonn, Germany

Registered: 2007-06-07

Posts: 997

Re: Determining network usage by program

Hey thanks, that looks very good!

Procyon

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Registered: 2008-05-07

Posts: 1,819

Re: Determining network usage by program

Nice find, n0dix.

Somehow rtorrent shows up as a process and also as lots of PID 0 entries with IP to IP addresses, which worried me for a second.