Re: [PLUG] Logging network use while using Zoom
On 5/13/21 1:32 PM, Russell Senior wrote: In the context of paying for bandwidth during a Zoom call, unless you have a way of turning off those other uses, you are going to end up shuttling those bytes over your data plan and needing to pay for them anyway, so it seems to me worth counting them. Once this system is set up, these Zoom meetings will be the only traffic on it. The hotspot won't be open to anyone else. -- Regards, Dick Steffens ___ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
Re: [PLUG] Logging network use while using Zoom
On 5/13/21 12:23 PM, Paul Heinlein wrote: I know that Russell is aware of this, but it's worth noting that aggregate numbers won't necessarily be limited to your Zoom session. Your package manager may be configured to look for updates every once in a while; a cron job may kick off a network session; any local network filesystem activity can bump the aggregate. Perhaps none of those scenarios applies to your system during the Zoom call, but beware that they will impact your numbers. If the package manger goes out and looks for stuff, that won't be a large amount of data, and I don't have anything set to automatically download updates. Also, there are no cron jobs that I've set up, nor local network activity during the meeting. Thanks for the clarification. -- Regards, Dick Steffens ___ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
Re: [PLUG] Logging network use while using Zoom
On 5/13/21 11:44 AM, Russell Senior wrote: You do want to be looking at the whole picture though, not just firefox. Those numbers are way too low to be your online meeting. You might want to track total in/out bytes of the interface. Before and after your meeting run ifconfig -a. For each interface, you should see a line like: RX bytes:7251003175 (7.2 GB) TX bytes:282820023 (282.8 MB) Or, if you like iproute2 tools instead, ip -s link, where you will see lines like this: RX: bytes packets errors dropped overrun mcast 7255250852 7218804 0 0 0 0 TX: bytes packets errors dropped carrier collsns 284958814 1699378 0 0 0 0 Subtracting the before numbers from the after numbers, you should get the aggregate "during" numbers. That makes a lot of sense. Thanks. -- Regards, Dick Steffens ___ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
Re: [PLUG] Logging network use while using Zoom
On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 12:23 PM Paul Heinlein wrote: > > On Thu, 13 May 2021, Russell Senior wrote: > > > You do want to be looking at the whole picture though, not just > > firefox. Those numbers are way too low to be your online meeting. > > > > You might want to track total in/out bytes of the interface. Before > > and after your meeting run ifconfig -a. For each interface, you should > > see a line like: > > > > RX bytes:7251003175 (7.2 GB) TX bytes:282820023 (282.8 MB) > > > > Or, if you like iproute2 tools instead, ip -s link, where you will see > > lines like this: > > > > RX: bytes packets errors dropped overrun mcast > >7255250852 7218804 0 0 0 0 > >TX: bytes packets errors dropped carrier collsns > >284958814 1699378 0 0 0 0 > > > > Subtracting the before numbers from the after numbers, you should get > > the aggregate "during" numbers. > > I know that Russell is aware of this, but it's worth noting that > aggregate numbers won't necessarily be limited to your Zoom session. > Your package manager may be configured to look for updates every once > in a while; a cron job may kick off a network session; any local > network filesystem activity can bump the aggregate. > > Perhaps none of those scenarios applies to your system during the Zoom > call, but beware that they will impact your numbers. In the context of paying for bandwidth during a Zoom call, unless you have a way of turning off those other uses, you are going to end up shuttling those bytes over your data plan and needing to pay for them anyway, so it seems to me worth counting them. ___ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
Re: [PLUG] Logging network use while using Zoom
On Thu, 13 May 2021, Russell Senior wrote: You do want to be looking at the whole picture though, not just firefox. Those numbers are way too low to be your online meeting. You might want to track total in/out bytes of the interface. Before and after your meeting run ifconfig -a. For each interface, you should see a line like: RX bytes:7251003175 (7.2 GB) TX bytes:282820023 (282.8 MB) Or, if you like iproute2 tools instead, ip -s link, where you will see lines like this: RX: bytes packets errors dropped overrun mcast 7255250852 7218804 0 0 0 0 TX: bytes packets errors dropped carrier collsns 284958814 1699378 0 0 0 0 Subtracting the before numbers from the after numbers, you should get the aggregate "during" numbers. I know that Russell is aware of this, but it's worth noting that aggregate numbers won't necessarily be limited to your Zoom session. Your package manager may be configured to look for updates every once in a while; a cron job may kick off a network session; any local network filesystem activity can bump the aggregate. Perhaps none of those scenarios applies to your system during the Zoom call, but beware that they will impact your numbers. -- Paul Heinlein heinl...@madboa.com 45.38° N, 122.59° W___ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
Re: [PLUG] Logging network use while using Zoom
You do want to be looking at the whole picture though, not just firefox. Those numbers are way too low to be your online meeting. You might want to track total in/out bytes of the interface. Before and after your meeting run ifconfig -a. For each interface, you should see a line like: RX bytes:7251003175 (7.2 GB) TX bytes:282820023 (282.8 MB) Or, if you like iproute2 tools instead, ip -s link, where you will see lines like this: RX: bytes packets errors dropped overrun mcast 7255250852 7218804 0 0 0 0 TX: bytes packets errors dropped carrier collsns 284958814 1699378 0 0 0 0 Subtracting the before numbers from the after numbers, you should get the aggregate "during" numbers. -- Russell On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 9:24 AM Dick Steffens wrote: > > On 5/12/21 10:58 PM, TomasK wrote: > > Or you could just read the in/out 75MB/53.6MB numbers I put in brackets > > for you, double check the columns and call it a day. > > In the light of "another day" this makes sense. > > Thanks. > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > ___ > PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug ___ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
Re: [PLUG] Logging network use while using Zoom
On 5/12/21 10:58 PM, TomasK wrote: Or you could just read the in/out 75MB/53.6MB numbers I put in brackets for you, double check the columns and call it a day. In the light of "another day" this makes sense. Thanks. -- Regards, Dick Steffens ___ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
