Re: How can I measure the network load ?

From: norm (norm_at_sunperf.com)
Date: 11/25/03


Date: 24 Nov 2003 23:09:37 -0800

Nicolas HUYNH <huynh@ath.cena.fr> wrote in message news:<3FBA4235.5030203@ath.cena.fr>...
> Hi
>
> I am looking for a tool allowing to get periodically
> the network load of some machines on a local area network
> (Linux and Solaris 8), and the amount of information
> between clients and servers of my distributed application.
>
> The aim is to gather enough information to optimize
> the distribution of my processes over the network,
> to know which clients/servers are the most bandwith
> consuming in runtime conditons, and so on ...
>
> I tried netstat, but this does not give me full
> satisfaction, and the result is different on Linux
> and Solaris.
>
> Thanks for any advice !
>
> Nicolas

For Solaris, look at http://www.sunperf.com/perfmontools.html

For Linux, I am working on a port currently. These tools do not
require root, so no security problems.

http://www.sunperf.com/images/linux.screen_dump.png

Norm.



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