From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 3 20:34:46 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9048D10656D2 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 2010 20:34:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 614638FC14 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 2010 20:34:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by thought.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 26BD3E80CBC; Wed, 3 Nov 2010 13:34:57 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 13:34:56 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Dan Nelson Message-ID: <20101103203456.GA8236@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> <20101103055527.GA11737@dan.emsphone.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101103055527.GA11737@dan.emsphone.com> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 24 years of service to the Unix community. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: Bruce Cran , RW , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: is there a utillity...? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 20:34:46 -0000 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 :) I think this little gadget is neat! Not much on the network section, tho. The Config window/dialog has a space to type in a string for "Net" ... I have "NIC" for the "Optional label"; what command string should I enter below? gary PS: I d/loaded a different face// ["theme"?] for this, but went back to the default! OH: PPS: How should I activate "lo"? > > -- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@allantgroup.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix The 7.90a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php An Open Letter to Stephen Hawking http://www.thought.org/#oL