Troubleshooting Linux System Performance
This article and accompanying video from Nathan Lager describes how to collect information about your Linux system's performance.
The article summarizes how to use three utilities that provide essential performance information:
- top – Provides a constantly updated process and performance dashboard.
- free – Displays the system's current memory consumption.
- vmstat – Breaks down the buffers and cache and shows information about swap utilization.
If you prefer, you can skip straight to the video.
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04/17/2023
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