[nycbug-talk] Mac network stats question

Brian Cully bcully at gmail.com
Tue Oct 13 14:46:35 EDT 2009


	I don't know what GUI you're talking about, but the raw data is in  
the kernel, naturally. According to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1126790/how-to-get-network-adapter-stats-in-linux-mac-osx 
  you can get it from sysctl, but it doesn't appear you can get it  
directly from sysctl on the cli. The netstat command also outputs this  
stuff if you use the -i flag.

-bjc

On 13-Oct-2009, at 13:50, Marc Spitzer wrote:

> I know that, I am looking for where the data files are stored.
>
> thanks,
>
> marc
>
> On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Brian Cully <bcully at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>>        For longer term stuff you can always use MRTG or its ilk.  
>> However, my
>> uses tend more to the immediate conditions, and both MenuMeters and  
>> iStat
>> Menus are excellent for at-a-glance analysis (and they also have  
>> stuff like
>> CPU, memory usage, and MenuMeters has swap rates.)
>>
>> -bjc
>>
>> On 13-Oct-2009, at 12:43, Marc Spitzer wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> There is a gui that gives you network usage graph on osx, does  
>>> anyone
>>> know where the data is stored that is used to draw the chart, and if
>>> possible what format it is in?  This is for 10.4 and 10.5.
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>>
>>> marc
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>
>
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