bwm(1)

bwm1

Bandwidth monitor

Usage

bwm [update] [file]

Overview

This is a very tiny bandwidth monitor (not X11). Can monitor up to 16 interfaces in the same time, and shows totals too.

Note

The display show kilobytes per sec, and kilo mean 1024.

Options

update

Specifies the update frequency in seconds. Defaults to 2.

file

Determinates the special file to gether interface info from. Defaults to /proc/net/dev.

Releases

3 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 3.0
  2. 3.1–4.0

Author

This manual page was written by Lenart Janos <[email protected]>, for the Debian GNU system (but may be used by others).

From bwm 1.1.0-8.1 in Debian 4.0 (Etch). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.