iostat and vmstat – Awesome System Statistics for Linux | Two excellent Linux apps are iostat and vmstat. These provide realtime statistics of system IO and memory usage. Here’s how it works! iostat iostat is useful to view realtime stats of disk IO. I suggest running ‘iostat 1′ to have the command refresh each second. $ iostat 1 Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (brahms) 09/12/2012 _x86_64_ (4 CPU)
OS X Monitor Virtual Memory Usage from Command Line
OS X Monitor Virtual Memory Usage from Command Line | OS X has a simple command line tool to monitor virtual memory usage: vm_stat. I’ll show you how it works! Crack open a terminal and run vm_stat. You will see an output somewhat like below: $ vm_stat Mach Virtual Memory Statistics: (page size of 4096 bytes) Pages free: 54492. Pages active: 541989. Pages inactive: 155818.
CentOS – Most Popular Web Server
CentOS – Most Popular Web Server | A recent w3techs.com survey shows CentOS overtaking Debian as the most popular web server distro. Image: w3techs.com It is also interesting to note the gradual decline of Redhat, as well as the increase in Ubuntu as a server. The full break down of popular distro flavors can be viewed here. For more details, hit up
