Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Dan Cowsill <danthehat@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Monitoring data usage
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:21:29
Message-Id: 4ef07b8c0907061321y7078f97dj8154a04569c5690e@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Monitoring data usage by Grant
1 On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Grant<emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote:
2 >>> > I'm using ifconfig to monitor how much data I'm using, but it seems
3 >>> > pretty high.  Is there a simple way to see why I'm using so much data?
4 >>>
5 >>> $ eix ^ntop
6 >>> [I] net-analyzer/ntop
7 >>>       Available versions:  3.3.9-r2 ~3.3.10-r1 {ipv6 ssl tcpd}
8 >>>       Installed versions:  3.3.9-r2(14:11:46 06/25/09)(ssl tcpd -ipv6)
9 >>>       Homepage:            http://www.ntop.org/ntop.html
10 >>>       Description:         Network traffic analyzer with web interface
11 >>>
12 >>> $
13 >>
14 >> Also iftop and lsof with some clever regex-ing if you want to see what
15 >> program
16 >> drives the connection.
17 >
18 > Thank you, iftop is great:
19 >
20 > iftop -i ppp0 -P
21 >
22 > - Grant
23 >
24 >
25
26 I use vnstat. You can get PHP frontends for vnstat that make it nice
27 and groovy as well.