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Before diving into the tools themselves, it's crucial to understand the key metrics that indicate the health of a Linux system. These include CPU utilization, memory usage, disk activity, and network ...

A senior Netflix software engineer says one of the most fundamental performance measurement tools we all use when evaluating a system may be completely incorrect. Share on Facebook (opens in a new ...

I run VMware Workstation 5.0 and Fedora Core 4. Whenever I start up a guest OS running Linux with the 2.6 kernel (such as Ubuntu or any 2.6 live CD), the host shows ~20% CPU utilization by the ...

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