Article: 82066 of comp.unix.solaris Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 18:33:24 +1000 From: Brendan Gregg X-X-Sender: Subject: nicstat - network Kbytes/sec statistics Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII NNTP-Posting-Host: 220.244.170.58 X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 220.244.170.58 X-Trace: dnews.tpgi.com.au!tpg.com.au 1090744741 220.244.170.58 (25 Jul 2004 18:39:01 +1000) Lines: 54 Path: news.meer.net!newsread1.mlpsca01.us.to.verio.net!newsartnum1.dllstx09.us.to.verio.net!newspeer1.stngva01.us.to.verio.net!news.verio.net!newsfeed.vmunix.org!news2.euro.net!fi.sn.net!newsfeed2.fi.sn.net!feeder2.news.jippii.net!feeder1.news.jippii.net!news.net.hanse.com!nntp.gblx.net!nntp3.phx1!dnews.tpgi.com.au!tpg.com.au!tpgext!brendan Xref: archive.mv.meer.net comp.unix.solaris:82066 G'Day, I've just written a handy freeware tool to print network interface statistics - Kbytes/sec read and written. eg, $ nicstat 1 Time Int rKb/s wKb/s rPk/s wPk/s rAvs wAvs %Util 00:45:29 hme0 2.27 9.02 11.37 16.52 204.23 559.15 0.09 00:45:30 hme0 0.37 0.67 6.02 9.03 62.67 75.78 0.01 00:45:31 hme0 0.31 0.67 5.01 9.01 63.20 75.78 0.01 00:45:32 hme0 0.31 0.67 5.00 9.00 63.20 75.78 0.01 00:45:33 hme0 0.31 0.67 5.00 9.00 63.20 75.78 0.01 00:45:34 hme0 1.52 2.18 16.00 19.00 97.37 117.37 0.03 00:45:35 hme0 0.31 0.61 5.00 8.00 63.20 78.50 0.01 00:45:36 hme0 8.67 1280.35 129.98 929.84 68.31 1410.01 10.56 00:45:37 hme0 17.89 2933.96 277.79 2113.40 65.95 1421.58 24.18 00:45:38 hme0 18.09 2954.55 281.16 2128.19 65.89 1421.61 24.35 00:45:39 hme0 10.15 1585.97 157.05 1149.37 66.15 1412.97 13.08 00:45:40 hme0 0.31 0.67 5.00 9.00 63.20 75.78 0.01 00:45:41 hme0 0.42 0.67 6.00 9.00 72.33 75.78 0.01 00:45:42 hme0 0.31 0.67 5.00 9.00 63.20 75.78 0.01 [...] The SE Toolkit's "nx.se" does this already (and does it better), I wrote "nicstat" as a simple Perl Kstat program for when you want a quick look. It's at, http://www.brendangregg.com/k9toolkit.html ... and it does something meaningful with multiple network cards, $ nicstat 5 Time Int rKb/s wKb/s rPk/s wPk/s rAvs wAvs %Util 00:58:02 hme0 0.12 0.01 1.05 0.04 113.53 238.16 0.00 00:58:02 qfe0 2.94 0.53 5.97 3.70 504.29 147.69 0.03 00:58:02 qfe1 6.79 26.37 17.71 25.47 392.55 1060.22 0.27 00:58:02 qfe2 0.27 7.78 3.24 6.10 86.74 1306.18 0.07 00:58:02 qfe3 1.15 20.30 8.09 15.78 145.72 1317.10 0.18 00:58:07 hme0 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 00:58:07 qfe0 0.04 0.25 0.60 0.80 60.00 316.25 0.00 00:58:07 qfe1 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 00:58:07 qfe2 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 00:58:07 qfe3 0.14 0.19 0.60 0.60 246.67 319.67 0.00 [...] the first lines are the summary since boot data. Enjoy, Brendan Gregg [Sydney, Australia]