On Wed, 2012-10-17 at 17:22 -0700, Andrew Hume wrote:
> screwed by linux again. sigh.
> so apparently i am overloading my pathetic linux system with too much
> tcp/ip traffic.

What makes this "apparent"?  

> is there any way to detect this while (or before or after) it is
> happening?

The "ss" command can report detailed network connection information and
statistics.
<http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com/2012/10/d-is-for-debugging.html>

> of course no error messages are emitted.
> but might there be some other thing buried away somewhere, like /proc?

If there is a low level error or some type of exhaustion is will
probably be reported in the kernel's ring buffer - you dump that using
the "dmesg" command.


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