Tell for how long has been the program running

[vemv]

Hey there,

I run nethogs via upstart, e.g. it is supposed to be permanently running (and logging the output to files which I later analyse).

I run it with the -t and -v 3 options.

It'd be tremendously useful if the output said for how long has the nethogs process been running in total. That way I can identify each 'run' instantly, allowing me to discard 99% of the logs.

Current behavior

Refreshing:
/usr/bin/ssh/21045/1000 0.000234604 0.00025177
unknown TCP/0/0 0   0

Refreshing:
/usr/bin/ssh/21045/1000 0.000234604 0.00025177
unknown TCP/0/0 0   0

Desired behavior

nethogs started at 1459185766, and it has been running for 180 seconds now.
Refreshing:
/usr/bin/ssh/21045/1000 0.000234604 0.00025177
unknown TCP/0/0 0   0

nethogs started at 1459185766, and it has been running for 240 seconds now.
Refreshing:
/usr/bin/ssh/21045/1000 0.000234604 0.00025177
unknown TCP/0/0 0   0

Could you please implement this? Sounds easy :)

Surely this feature would be better added as an opt-in feature, disabled by default.

Cheers - Victor

[vemv]

Probably the following format would be better (as it's more machine-readable)

started_at: 1459185766
running_for: 240

[vemv]

Hmmm I just thought of solving this the unixy way:

nethogs -t p1p1 -d 3 -v 3 | awk -v now=$(date +%s) '{print now " " systime() " " $0}'

It just works :) closing.

[raboof]

Nice ;)