[olug] resource usage listing

[Christopher Cashell]

At Sat, 21 May 05, Unidentified Flying Banana Charles Bird, said:
> is there a command i can use to see how much ram and or cpu usage i am
> using or load avg.?  I'm not running a gui, just running some
> services. The machine is dedicated to Verlihub for DC. Need to see
> what happens when i load her down with 5000+ users.

I assume this is a Linux box?

Typically, I'd start with 'top'.  That will give you basic CPU and
memory utilization statistics, along with the ability to sort individual
processes by those statistics.

If you need more specific information, there are other tools available.

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