man bwm (Commandes) - BandWidth Monitor

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bwm - BandWidth Monitor

bwm [update] [file]

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

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

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.

This manual page was written by Lenart Janos <ocsi@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU system (but may be used by others).