On 2009-01-05, Kangkook Jee <aixe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Jonathan Gardner wrote: >> On Jan 5, 2:26 pm, Kangkook Jee <aixe...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> I'd like to measure number of bytes sent(or recv'd) from my python >>> application. Does anyone have any idea how can I achieve this? >>> >>> I tried to do this by tracing some socket calls (send, sendto, sendAll) >>> using 'metaclass' but I could find exactly place that I can put this in. >>> >>> My application runs some number of protocols (bittorrent, xmlrpc ..) in >>> it and will be measured for a couple of hours. >>> >> >> A good universal tool on the Linux platform is tcpdump. It takes some >> learning, but is very useful for this kind of task. You can use a tool >> like ethereal to visualize the data that tcpdump gathers. > > Thanks a lot Jonathan > > That seems like a good solution for my issue but how can I distinguish > traffics from my application to others?
You can't predict ahead of time what hosts/ports that your application is going to be using? > I'm still struggling to solve it within python process since > it looks cleaner but it doesn't seems to be easy at all. I don't why adding bunches of code to your app would be "cleaner" than gathering data using external programs. -- Grant -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
