Archive for August, 2007

iostat - Report Central Processing Unit (CPU) statistics and input/output statistics for devices and partitions.

The iostat command is used for monitoring system input/output device loading by observing the time the devices are active in relation to their average transfer rates. The iostat command generates reports that can be used to change system configuration to better balance the input/output load between physical disks.
The first report generated by the iostat command [...]

top - display Linux tasks

The top program provides a dynamic real-time view of a running system. It can display system summary information as well as a list of tasks currently being managed by the Linux kernel. The types of system sum-
mary information shown and the types, order and size of information displayed for tasks are all user configurable and [...]

pstree - display a tree of processes

pstree shows running processes as a tree. The tree is rooted at either pid or init if pid is omitted. If a user name is specified, all process trees rooted at processes owned by that user are shown.
pstree visually merges identical branches by putting them [...]

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