Load (computing) - Other System Performance Commands

Other System Performance Commands

Other commands for assessing system performance include:

  • uptime the system reliability and load average
  • top for an overall system view
  • htop interactive process viewer
  • iftop interactive network traffic viewer
  • iotop interactive I/O viewer - iotop homepage
  • iostat for storage I/O statistics
  • netstat for network statistics
  • mpstat for CPU statistics
  • tload load average graph for terminal
  • xload load average graph for X

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