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Tag Archives: monitoring
Gorgeous and useful information: Configuring conky
For quite some time, I have wanted to use conky on my Linux desktop. The screenshots were incredible. All the best looking and informative Linux desktops I have seen use it. But whenever I tried to follow the tutorials, the … Continue reading
Top for Apache activity
While top can show you that yes, it is Apache that is taking up all your server’s resources, what can you do to narrow down the activity to a particular site being served on the box? You could tail the … Continue reading
Show processes as a tree
The 1<a href="http://www.bellevuelinux.org/pstree.html">pstree command</a> shows the ancestral relationships between processes running on a machine. What does that mean? It means you can see an awesome tree of what’s running on your box, instead of the boring output of ps. Check … Continue reading
Topping top: htop
Top is a very handy and common application. But there is always room for improvement, even in common and simple programs. In this case, meet htop. It performs a similar function to top, viz. showing you what is using your … Continue reading