Monthly Archives: February 2024

Track cpu stats

#Run iostat to get the average cpu usage every 10 seconds for 10 times:iostat -x 10 10 >> /home/<user>/iostat.out.$(date +”%Y-%m-%d”) #Run dstat to get cpu stats for cpus 1, 3 and the total:dstat -C 0,3,total

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The top/htop command(s)

top and htop are free CLI process viewers. They list the top resource using processes being run.The information includes: top options:–a : Sort by memory usage This switch makes top to sort the processes by allocated memory–d : Delay time update interval as: -d ss.tt (seconds.tenths)–p : Monitor PIDs as: -pN1 … Continue reading

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Using the watch command

Watch disk usage updating every 3 seconds:watch -d -n 3 ‘df -h’

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