The sar command under Linux and Unix systems gives the system activity reports. As the system works, a record of activities is kept in certain counters in the kernel. The sar command gives statistics regarding the CPU, I/O, paging, devices, memory, swap space, network, run queue length and load average, interrupts and power management. At …
Linux commands like top, uptime and w report the system load average. For instance, the first line of top command output is something like, top – 04:56:31 up 60 days, 23:18, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.06, 0.05 The last three numbers give the load average for the last one minute, five minutes and fifteen …
The Unix top command is useful for monitoring systems continuously for processes that take more system resources like the CPU time and the memory. top periodically updates the display showing the high resource consuming processes at the top. top is an excellent aid in checking a system. If your Linux or Unix system is giving …
