From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 3 20:55:35 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 CC7A8106564A for ; Wed, 3 Nov 2010 20:55:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from email2.allantgroup.com (email2.emsphone.com [199.67.51.116]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A5C88FC18 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 2010 20:55:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by email2.allantgroup.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id oA3KtYQN080975 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 3 Nov 2010 15:55:34 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (smmsp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id oA3KtX0v047173 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 3 Nov 2010 15:55:34 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id oA3KtXPr047172; Wed, 3 Nov 2010 15:55:33 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 15:55:33 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Gary Kline Message-ID: <20101103205533.GB11737@dan.emsphone.com> 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> <20101103203456.GA8236@thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101103203456.GA8236@thought.org> X-OS: FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.96.4 at email2.allantgroup.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (email2.allantgroup.com [199.67.51.78]); Wed, 03 Nov 2010 15:55:34 -0500 (CDT) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.68 on 199.67.51.78 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 20:55:36 -0000 In the last episode (Nov 03), Gary Kline said: > 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? You don't need to fill either one in. The optional label will show up just above the interface name in the display, and entering a command string turns the interface name into a button you can click to launch that command. If you right-click on one of the charts, you can change the scale, and the drawing style for TX/RX data. > gary > > PS: I d/loaded a different face// ["theme"?] for this, but went > back to the default! > > OH: PPS: How should I activate "lo"? Just check the "Enable lo0" checkbox in the config tab for the lo0 interface, in the Builtins->Net category. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com