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First of all, I am on a slow Internet connection and it really makes me mad if something gets downloaded in background (like automatic update of any software) without my knowledge.

How can I monitor my network traffic sorted according to the "which binary file is using how much"? I can find the total transfer rate in "System Monitor" in Gnome, but what if I want to find for individual process. There are softwares like netmonitor in Windows, but how can I achieve that in UBUNTU LINUX.

GUI application will be nice, command line software will also be fine.. I tried searching on Google because I actually didnt get any relevant search.

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Here's a great article about bandwith monitoring in Ubuntu. There is a big list of apps with an in-depth look into each one. Link

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I want an application which tells which binary file is using the bandwidth.. How do I do that – shadyabhi Jan 23 '10 at 4:48
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Googling it gives me pyshaper. It looks something like what you are looking for. Here is a How-To

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I asked the same qestion of reddit and got nice replies.

http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/r1v5x/is_there_an_app_in_linux_that_shows_perprocess/

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