is there a utillity...?

[Gary Kline]

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"?

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