Monitoring, anticipating, and reacting to server load is a full time job in some organizations. Unexpected spikes in resource usage can indicate a software or hardware problem. Gradual increases over ...

Before diving into the tools themselves, it's crucial to understand the key metrics that indicate the health of a Linux system. These include CPU utilization, memory usage, disk activity, and network ...

Six years after its initial launch, auto-cpufreq version 3.0.0 is now available. For those wondering, auto-cpufreq is an ...

In the realm of IT infrastructure, the performance of Linux servers is a critical factor that can significantly influence business operations, user experience, and cost efficiency. Linux servers, ...

The sar command can provide detailed system metrics on just about every aspect of system performance. You can query it on as as-needed basis or set it up to provide daily reports. Sar is a system ...

I run VMware Workstation 5.0 and Fedora Core 4. Whenever I start up a guest OS running Linux with the 2.6 kernel (such as Ubuntu or any 2.6 live CD), the host shows ~20% CPU utilization by the ...

A CPU that's utilized at an average of 50% is probably ideal, but higher spikes can be tolerated. Support questions seem to run in cycles, and NetWare support questions are no different. One that ...