How To Install nethogs on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nethogs
on CentOS 7.
What is nethogs
NetHogs is a small “net top” tool. Instead of breaking the traffic down per protocol or per subnet, like most such tools do, it groups bandwidth by process and does not rely on a special kernel module to be loaded. So if there’s suddenly a lot of network traffic, you can fire up NetHogs and immediately see which PID is causing this, and if it’s some kind of spinning process, kill it.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install nethogs
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nethogs.
Install nethogs on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install nethogs
using yum
by running the following command:
Install nethogs on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install nethogs
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall nethogs on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the nethogs
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nethogs
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.