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Console CPU utilisation chart

I need to monitor CPU and network utilisation from a terminal. For network traffic, I have found the perfect tool: slurm It gives me a moving chart. It gives me an nCurses-like UI I can use from ...
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How to find what's hogging what resources? [closed]

I've found lots of similar questions, but nothing that's exactly right. I'm trying to figure out what's making one server run slower than another. I'm hoping for something that would say something ...
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How can I test the system footprint of applications?

I am about to develop a piece of software and I want to ascertain the impact it has on my system. The main things I am look for are load times, memory and CPU usage and shutdown time, although I would ...
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USB performance/traffic monitor?

First of all, I found a similar question but it doesn't really solve my problem. I am trying to discover if the USB bus for a device I am using is the bottleneck in my program. How can I monitor a ...
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performance monitoring

Is there some performace monitoring tool which would run in background gathering info about all system activity? Somethimes my system (Arch linux, 32 bit) slows down terribly and the top utility ...
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What is “System Memory ” displayed in nmon in AIX?

I have a host with AIX 6.1 (6100-04-02-1007) upgraded from AIX 5.1 with Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1. Since the upgrade from AIX 5.3 to 6.1, Run vx services means a lots of memory consumed that I ...
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Quantify unix responsiveness

I am one of the n users of a shared unix machine. For reasons unknown, the machine is not "responsive" enough. For example, it is slow on interactive commands, it takes few noticeable moments for any ...