On the PC there are several programs that will show you your bandwidth usage on a per process or per program basis. Is there anyway of doing something similar on the Mac?
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From Adam Hawkes
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Out of the box, OS X will give you data totals with netstat
$ netstat -a Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address (state) tcp4 0 0 192.168.1.113.62913 blah.http ESTABLISHED tcp4 199610 0 192.168.1.113.61334 blah ESTABLISHED
Alnitak : that's not right - that Recv-Q column only tells you how much data has been received by the kernel and _not yet_ read by the application. It's not a running totalFrom Purfideas -
In addition to LittleSnitch (which I love for other reasons), there is a more UNIX-like way to monitor network traffic: ntop.
ntop has the advantage of being portable to other UNIX systems.
You'll need to download and install gdbm. A note about the gdbm install, you'll want to edit the Makefile and set the user and group, the package default of bin doesn't exist on macosx.
I actually went to compile ntop on my mac, and found to my disgust that they expanded the basic app out into a pseudo network monitoring application... thereby requiring a lot of crap that I don't want ;( Not a very UNIX thing to do.
Alnitak : I don't think ntop does the job either, it's just a glorified tcpdump and can't account for packets on a per-process basis.From ceretullis -
Install macports and then run
sudo port install iftop
which will install iftop. Now run
sudo iftop
Alnitak : iftop doesn't measure per-process bandwidth, it measures bandwidth between pairs of hostsFrom ob
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