| Stephen Gran on 16 Apr 2004 17:59:02 -0000 |
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On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 01:00:22PM -0400, Mike Leone said: > 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) Sorry, hit the send key too quickly last time. Use bwm (AKA Bandwidth Monitor) for this. It's exactly what you want. For debian, apt-get install bwm will get it for you. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | BOFH excuse #151: Some one needed the | | steve@lobefin.net | powerstrip, so they pulled the switch | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | plug. | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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