Checking which application is taking bandwidth

Kevin Martin ktmdms at gmail.com
Thu Jun 14 19:16:38 UTC 2012


On 06/14/2012 01:47 AM, Martin Airs wrote:
> On Thursday 14 Jun 2012 09:04:46 Junayeed Ahnaf Nirjhor wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> What is the way to check which application is using the bandwidth? I use
>> GNOME 3 with Fedora 17 .
>>
>> Thanks :)
> 
> Using ss can tell you what sockets and ports are open, in particular ss -p 
> will tell you which process is using said ports.
> 
> then iftop can tell you individual bandwidth usage for each port.
> 
> using the 2 could give you some idea on whats going on
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
> 

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't "ss -p" essentially the same as the older "netstat -anp"?

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Kevin Martin


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