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Hi, I am searching for a Linux user level command/utility to measure the network bandwitdth used by a specific process by usig its process id. i used different commands like, ...
  1. 08-05-2009 #1
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    Linux user level command/utility to find the bandwitdth used by a process

    Hi,

    I am searching for a Linux user level command/utility to measure the network bandwitdth used by a specific process by usig its process id.

    i used different commands like, iperf, ntop, netstat etc, but it doesn't to meet my requirement. i need to observe network bandwidth used by only a specific process .

    thnx in advance
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    Hey there, try NetHogs - NetHogs: What program is using that bandwidth?.

    Should be in your repo.
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    Thanx Sarlacii,

    yes, this is one of the best solutions, but i need to track a specific process by process id, not all the processes currently running.
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    Ah, sorry, I misunderstood your request. You want to check on a particular PID... so effectively you need something that will work in a script (ala 'top -bn 1 > bw.txt' for top) then nethogs is not the tool, as it does not have a suitable command line switch. You could fire up a BFG-script that calls nethogs, sends the output to a log, then kills it... then a grep for your PID and away you go. Messy though.
    Good luck... I'll keep checking the thread to see what others come up with.
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