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I'm basically looking for a utility that displays which processes are using how much bandwidth, similar to how top displays which processes use how much resources.

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whats FLOSS? Something like Free L? Open Source Software? – echox Nov 11 '10 at 15:18
Ah thanks :-) its because to indicate the difference of free/open source :-) – echox Nov 11 '10 at 15:23
@echox I got rid of the acronym. – Tshepang Feb 24 '11 at 5:46

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Have a look at ntop.org.

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How do you get it to display BW consumption per process? Look at my Answer to see what I'm looking for. Can this do that, or close enough? – Tshepang Feb 23 '11 at 9:24
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NetHogs is the best tool I have found so far that fulfills my need, but sadly needs to be run as root. (via)

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I would like to add iptraf to the list. http://iptraf.seul.org

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I see last update was 2005, and that's worrying. Why do you recommend it? Why use it instead of alternatives? – Tshepang Nov 23 '10 at 9:30
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Simple to install, simple to use and useful. I started using it about 10 years ago, and never needed a replacement. I am still using it. Netstat shows you just a snapshot (like ps for processes), ntop gives you something like top for the network ... I don't know about NetHogs. You also can use lsof to see which process uses which port if you need. – Patkos Csaba Nov 24 '10 at 15:02
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netstat can give you usage statistics on a per socket basis.

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What command do you use to get usage statistics on a per socket basis? Can you get usage on a per-process basis? – Tshepang Mar 1 '11 at 12:18

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