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Linux basic health check commands

The freecommand is installed by default and allows you to check RAM usage as well as monitor it in real time. The -s (seconds) switch … See more

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How to check an hard drive health from the command …

WEBThe smartmontools package is generally available in the default repositories of all the major Linux distributions. It contains two utilities useful to check the status of …

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How to check hard drive power on hours in Linux

WEBTo view the “power on” hours (the total runtime) of a hard drive, use the following command. In this example, the hard drive has been powered on for 12,131 …

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Retrieve hard drive's age and general health information using …

WEBTo prevent disaster it is important to know details about system’s storage device in terms of runtime, number of read and writes or bad blocks to determine the …

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How to configure smartd and be notified of hard disk …

WEBIt is needed to enable the monitoring of the S.M.A.R.T. health status of the disk. When this option is used, a report is received when any of the SMART attributes of …

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How to check battery life on Ubuntu

WEBClosing Thoughts. In this tutorial, we saw how to check the battery life on an Ubuntu Linux system. This included the visible icon from GNOME desktop, the Power …

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Linux Performance Optimization: Tools and Techniques

WEBSMART Data – Check Hard Drive Health. All hard drives collect data about their performance statistics, bad sectors, power on hours, and other information. These …

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Get CPU temperature on Linux

WEBGet CPU temperature from command line. Once the lm_sensors package is installed on your system, you will have access to the sensors-detect command. Running …

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How to stress test your CPU on Linux

WEBTo do so, enter the following command. $ pip install s-tui --user. To run the stress test enter the s-tui command into your terminal, then press the down arrow (or j …

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Best System Monitoring tool for Linux

WEBBashTOP system monitoring tool. There are many variants to the built in top Linux command, and BashTOP may just be the best. It is a command line tool, but …

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Monitoring Temperatures and Voltages in Linux

WEBGkrellm. To enable support for your sensors in Gkrellm, open up the Configuration by pressing F1 or right clicking on the border of the window. On the side of …

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Linux hardware monitoring tools

WEBIt can be installed with this command: $ sudo apt install smartmontools. Its name is smartd and you can configure it by editing /etc/smartd.conf and configuring the …

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How to check and tune power consumption with Powertop on Linux

WEBIn the “Usage” column we can find the estimated usage of a resource, generically expressed in ms/s (milliseconds/second), µS (microseconds/second) or …

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Ping sweep script to scan and monitor network

WEBScan network subnet. In this example, the Bash script will scan the network for hosts attached to an IP address 10.1.1.1 – 255. The script will print message Node …

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How to benchmark Disk performance on Linux

WEBOnce open, use a single click to select your disk from the left hand side of the dialog window, and then click on the 3 vertical dots near the top right of the dialog …

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How to monitor network activity on a Linux system

WEBTo view all network connections enter the following, where a replaces l and shows all network sockets not just listening ones. $ sudo ss -taunp. View established …

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Bash script to monitor CPU and Memory usage on Linux

WEBThe Bash script can be used to check the system performance in real time, as well as to collect usage statistics over time. The script can collect usage information …

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How to force fsck to check filesystem after system reboot on Linux

WEBNow that we have learned about some tune2fs basics, let’s discuss PASS system configuration option found inside of the /etc/fstab file containing all on boot …

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How to optimize laptop battery life with TLP on Linux

WEBTo check the current power-saving status, we can use an utility which comes with tlp: tlp-status. This utility let us view various information such as the value of tlp …

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How to install and use Hex editor on Kali Linux

WEBxxd is a command line hex editor that can create a hex dump of a binary file. It can also convert the dump back to binary form later. This gives you the ability to edit …

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