From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 21 18:43:45 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC1CC16A480 for ; Mon, 21 May 2007 18:43:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nataraja@cis.udel.edu) Received: from mail.eecis.udel.edu (louie.udel.edu [128.4.40.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A429213C448 for ; Mon, 21 May 2007 18:43:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nataraja@cis.udel.edu) Received: by mail.eecis.udel.edu (Postfix, from userid 62) id C815429EA; Mon, 21 May 2007 14:43:44 -0400 (EDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8 (2007-02-13) on louie.udel.edu X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-22.3 required=4.1 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00, LOCAL_AUTH_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.1.8 Received: from [128.175.192.39] (roaming-192-39.nss.udel.edu [128.175.192.39]) (Authenticated sender: nataraja@mail.eecis.udel.edu) by mail.eecis.udel.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74D6A29E3 for ; Mon, 21 May 2007 14:43:44 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4651E85D.4030501@cis.udel.edu> Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 14:43:41 -0400 From: Preethi Natarajan User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Sanitizer: This message has been sanitized! X-Sanitizer-URL: http://mailtools.anomy.net/ X-Sanitizer-Rev: UDEL-ECECIS: Sanitizer.pm, v 1.64 2002/10/22 MIME-Version: 1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Tracking send/recv queues. X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 18:43:45 -0000 Hello, First of, I am not sure if this is the correct mailing list for my queries. Please do let me know if this isn't the right one. I am interested in tracking send/recv queues at the transport layer for TCP and SCTP. - Is netstat the only way to achieve this tracking? - With netstat, it seems I have the following options: 1. netstat -m. Is there a way to view the output in application/socket specific format? 2. The recv Q/send Q information in netstat -a. But, I do not see information for SCTP sockets here. Am I missing something? - Since, I am interested in tracking memory over time, I should run a periodic script to execute netstat every x seconds? Thanks a ton, Preethi