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Date:      Wed, 3 Nov 2010 00:55:28 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>
Cc:        Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>, RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: is there a utillity...?
Message-ID:  <20101103055527.GA11737@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20101103055000.GB4073@thought.org>
References:  <20101102034203.GA4799@thought.org> <20101102085003.58ce8202@gumby.homeunix.com> <20101103011700.GB3490@thought.org> <201011030144.37369.bruce@cran.org.uk> <20101103055000.GB4073@thought.org>

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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 :)

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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