On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 12:33, Celejar <cele...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 9 May 2010 12:15:49 +0530 > Anand Sivaram <aspn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 11:38, Celejar <cele...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I'm looking for a tool that will measure bandwidth used by a specific > > > process. I'd like some sort of utility or wrapper that will answer > > > questions like "How much data did my network backup job push over the > > > wire?" > > ... > > > nethogs is unique in that manner, as per their website itself. > > http://nethogs.sourceforge.net/ > > see section "Links" in their website > > > > Most of the other tools give rate per tcp/udp sessions based on port > numbers > > and remote address information. > > So you may not find any other program to take care of this. I think it > is > > doable with a few hundred lines of code. > > This is what is required to be done. > > * /proc/<pid>/fd look for the socket inode numbers > > * correlate those inode numbers in /proc/net/tcp and /proc/net/udp to > find > > the > > source and destination ip and port details > > * use libpcap to open the interface and capture the packet, from this you > > could get the packet length, rate etc of each tcp, udp session > > Combining the above, it is possible to get what you need. > > Yeah, that's pretty much what I thought. Well, I think that I'm going > to code something like this, unless someone else will point out that > it's already been done. > > I'm actually surprised that such a tool doesn't exist. Isn't this > something quite useful? Aren't the sorts of questions that I want > answered pretty universal and important? > > Celejar > -- > foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator > mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email > ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100509030342.8f65db26.cele...@gmail.com > > Many of the programs are created when a potential developer felt that he/she requires such a program, but his/her requirement is not met by the existing programs. Now you are feeling that your requirement is not fulfilled and you are planning to get something of your own :) Your plan is really good, I could provide any help, in case you require any.
