On 5/11/21 2:17 PM, TomasK wrote:
1. start web browser with single tab - your zoom/whatever only
2. find web browsers pid (ps -ef |grep firefox)
3. Do you conference
call - Do not exit after the call ends
4. Check network usage for the process in: /proc/pid/net/netstat
5. now you can quit firefox

I followed those instructions and got some "results". Now I need to learn how to interpret them. Those results are:

steff@richard-ThinkPad-X200-Tablet:~$ cat /proc/2176/net/netstat
TcpExt: SyncookiesSent SyncookiesRecv SyncookiesFailed EmbryonicRsts PruneCalled RcvPruned OfoPruned OutOfWindowIcmps LockDroppedIcmps ArpFilter TW TWRecycled TWKilled PAWSActive PAWSEstab DelayedACKs DelayedACKLocked DelayedACKLost ListenOverflows ListenDrops TCPHPHits TCPPureAcks TCPHPAcks TCPRenoRecovery TCPSackRecovery TCPSACKReneging TCPSACKReorder TCPRenoReorder TCPTSReorder TCPFullUndo TCPPartialUndo TCPDSACKUndo TCPLossUndo TCPLostRetransmit TCPRenoFailures TCPSackFailures TCPLossFailures TCPFastRetrans TCPSlowStartRetrans TCPTimeouts TCPLossProbes TCPLossProbeRecovery TCPRenoRecoveryFail TCPSackRecoveryFail TCPRcvCollapsed TCPBacklogCoalesce TCPDSACKOldSent TCPDSACKOfoSent TCPDSACKRecv TCPDSACKOfoRecv TCPAbortOnData TCPAbortOnClose TCPAbortOnMemory TCPAbortOnTimeout TCPAbortOnLinger TCPAbortFailed TCPMemoryPressures TCPMemoryPressuresChrono TCPSACKDiscard TCPDSACKIgnoredOld TCPDSACKIgnoredNoUndo TCPSpuriousRTOs TCPMD5NotFound TCPMD5Unexpected TCPMD5Failure TCPSackShifted TCPSackMerged TCPSackShiftFallback TCPBacklogDrop PFMemallocDrop TCPMinTTLDrop TCPDeferAcceptDrop IPReversePathFilter TCPTimeWaitOverflow TCPReqQFullDoCookies TCPReqQFullDrop TCPRetransFail TCPRcvCoalesce TCPOFOQueue TCPOFODrop TCPOFOMerge TCPChallengeACK TCPSYNChallenge TCPFastOpenActive TCPFastOpenActiveFail TCPFastOpenPassive TCPFastOpenPassiveFail TCPFastOpenListenOverflow TCPFastOpenCookieReqd TCPFastOpenBlackhole TCPSpuriousRtxHostQueues BusyPollRxPackets TCPAutoCorking TCPFromZeroWindowAdv TCPToZeroWindowAdv TCPWantZeroWindowAdv TCPSynRetrans TCPOrigDataSent TCPHystartTrainDetect TCPHystartTrainCwnd TCPHystartDelayDetect TCPHystartDelayCwnd TCPACKSkippedSynRecv TCPACKSkippedPAWS TCPACKSkippedSeq TCPACKSkippedFinWait2 TCPACKSkippedTimeWait TCPACKSkippedChallenge TCPWinProbe TCPKeepAlive TCPMTUPFail TCPMTUPSuccess TCPDelivered TCPDeliveredCE TCPAckCompressed TCPZeroWindowDrop TCPRcvQDrop TCPWqueueTooBig TCPFastOpenPassiveAltKey TcpExt: 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 21 0 0 0 0 707 1 723 0 0 6579 816 7325 0 9 0 22 0 0 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 194 1 0 0 0 3 723 0 194 0 24 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 72 0 0 0 0 0 1 42 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1348 127 0 0 29 29 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 345 0 0 25 0 8583 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 224 0 0 8804 0 40 0 0 0 0 IpExt: InNoRoutes InTruncatedPkts InMcastPkts OutMcastPkts InBcastPkts OutBcastPkts InOctets OutOctets InMcastOctets OutMcastOctets InBcastOctets OutBcastOctets InCsumErrors InNoECTPkts InECT1Pkts InECT0Pkts InCEPkts ReasmOverlaps IpExt: 0 0 1209 236 945 1 75040712 53633193 145887 18870 143154 65 0 424771 0 0 0 0
rsteff@richard-ThinkPad-X200-Tablet:~$

As I'm looking at it I'm wondering if this was the right program to be tracking. When I start up a Zoom session, it's the Zoom program that runs. I can actually shut down Firefox at that point. The only thing I need Firefox for is the link for the meeting.

So, is there anything in the above set of stuff that is a count of bytes exchanged?

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Regards,

Dick Steffens

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