Linux – How to monitor network I/O usage per process under Linux

As of GNU coreutils 7.5 released in August 2009, sort allows a -h parameter, which allows numeric suffixes of the kind produced by du -h:

du -hs * | sort -h

If you are using a sort that does not support -h, you can install GNU Coreutils. E.g. on an older Mac OS X:

brew install coreutils
du -hs * | gsort -h

From sort manual:

-h, --human-numeric-sort compare human readable numbers (e.g., 2K 1G)

I managed to figure this out.

I wrote an LD_PRELOAD library that overrides send, recv, read, write family of functions and logs these operations on sockets.

The source code is very experimental and not secure, but anyway, I put it on SourceForge:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/netacct/