There are several commands for checking up on memory usage in a Linux system. Focusing on which processes and users are consuming the most memory can benefit from a few carefully crafted tools and ...

Let’s look at some basic commands that report on memory usage. The first that probably comes to mind is free. The free command will tell you about used and unused memory and about swap space. Physical ...

Work has had me setup a Nagios monitoring system for our servers and one of the metrics we would like to monitor is the memory usage of our servers, mainly for future capacity planning.<BR><BR>The ...

I've been using a minimal install of FreeBSD as a file server lately, and while I'm happy with it, I decided to try out Debian as well (just to learn more about Linux). <BR><BR>What surprised me is ...

Keep your Linux system running fast with simple maintenance commands to clean packages, clear logs, manage startup apps, and monitor performance.

Over the past few years I’ve seen a lot of inexpensive netbooks with low power ARM-based processors running Android, Windows CE, or other light-weight operating systems. Normally I don’t pay much ...