| Jeff Abrahamson on 16 Apr 2004 17:22:04 -0000 |
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On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 01:00:22PM -0400, Mike Leone wrote: > [19 lines, 148 words, 1002 characters] Top characters: _ntieaos > > Let's assume this situation: > > I start a huge mother download (1.2G - yes, I said G :-), and then go to > work. I can SSH back into my home LAN, at which point I have command-line > only, no GUI. > And I want to see what kind of transfer rates/bandwidth usage is happening > - has it slowed to a crawl? Is it perking along? Is it screaming? etc > > I know I can do things like iconfig, etc. But that isn't gonna tell me > things like "480K bps current incoming", or whatever. Anybody know of a > Debian package, or Linux commands, that can estimate that for me? > > (I can tell from the system response time that everything is slow. Just > would like to know how much bandwidth is being eaten up at any point in > time) Do you have a way of finding out how much has transferred (ls -l, du -sh, etc.)? Then rate = delta space / delta time. You can do this by hand or with a simple perl or awk script. -- Jeff Jeff Abrahamson <http://www.purple.com/jeff/> GPG fingerprint: 1A1A BA95 D082 A558 A276 63C6 16BF 8C4C 0D1D AE4B A cool book of games, highly worth checking out: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1931686963/purple-20 Attachment:
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