BeginnerLesson 16 of 1730 min 路 hands-on
Performance and Monitoring
Part of the Linux course
Someone messages you: "the server feels slow." That is all you get. Slow could be a runaway process, memory exhaustion, a disk that cannot keep up, or a network problem pretending to be all three. The temptation is to guess and start restarting things. The alternative is five commands that take thirty seconds and tell you which of those it actually is.
The gentlest check there is:
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Start this lessonPerformance and MonitoringWhat you'll learn
- Uptime
- Load average
- Free
- Vmstat
- Iostat
- Htop
- Dstat
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All lessons in this course
17 lessons- 1The Shell and First Commands20 min
- 2Filesystem and Navigation25 min
- 3Files and Permissions30 min
- 4Text Tools: grep, sed, awk30 min
- 5Pipes and Redirection25 min
- 6Processes and Signals30 min
- 7Users and Groups25 min
- 8Package Management25 min
- 9Networking Basics30 min
- 10Shell Scripting35 min
- 11systemd Services35 min
- 12SSH and Remote Access30 min
- 13Logs and Journals25 min
- 14Disks and Storage30 min
- 15Cron and Scheduled Tasks25 min
- 16Performance and Monitoring30 min
- 17Capstone: Server Setup60 min
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