Re: How can I figure out what processes are consuming my upload bandwidth?

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: How can I figure out what processes are consuming my upload bandwidth?
Date	2014-01-10 05:17 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
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On 2014-01-10, laredotornado@zipmail.com <laredotornado@zipmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using Mac 10.7.5.  I'm trying to figure out what processes/applications are consuming my available upload bandwidth and if possible, know what that is in kbps.  Free tools are always preferred.
>
> I have looked at the Activity Monitor, but seems to only give aggregate statistics.

The built-in 'nettop' command-line tool will show you what you want. Try
this:

1. Open /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.
2. Enter the command: nettop -m tcp
3. Press the up/down arrow keys to scroll up and down the listing. 

The "bytes in/out" columns show how much data is being transferred
to/from each application in the list. Read the manual page for nettop
(command: man nettop) for more information about the tool.

For a more friendly / easy method, iStat Menus will show you the
applications currently using network bandwidth on your Mac. Here's a
screenshot showing a Safari tab that is displaying a network camera
video stream on my MacBook Pro, as an example:

<http://s14.postimg.org/b3hlvxm4x/istat.png>

Get iStat Menus here: <http://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/>

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