pre.cjk { font-family: “DejaVu Sans”,monospace; }p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } I have been playing a bit with running programs even virtual machines in memory. What I have noticed is that when all physical RAM is used, my Linux OS (Ubuntu) will move excess memory into SWAP. This is normal, but…. I am attempting to keep […]
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So I had been looking for something to give me system stats about memory being used and CPU usage. I have usedthe program ‘top’ over the years, and then today I tested out the program hTop (htop). Htop is an interactive system-monitor process-viewer written for Linux. It is designed to replace the Unix program top. […]
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Monitor your Ubuntu System with saidar
saidar is a curses-based application to display system statistics. Statistics include CPU, processes, load, memory,swap, network I/O and disks I/O along with their free space. saidar utilizes libstatgrab library. libstatgrab is a library that provides cross platform access to statistics about the system on which it’s run. It’s written in C and presents a selection […]
There is a time when many of us will need to know how to do this. Today was I and my co/workers day…http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/ubuntu-linux-set-iscsi-initiator/ When Microsoft’s NTFS goes bad and doesn’t permit you to delete files located on iSCSI storage, we say “OH YEAH!!! Let’s see what *Linux has to say about that.” I’ll do my […]
For several weeks now I have been running PS3 Media Server (http://code.google.com/p/ps3mediaserver/) hosted on Ubuntu 10 Desktop (http://www.ubuntu.com/), when I decided to fine tune my environment by making the system headless as I had no need to interact with a desktop environment. Info: PS3 Media Server is a DLNA compliant UPNP Media Server which can […]
As much as I would like to discuss the importance of cleaning ones package for good health reasons. I choose to refrain this time around. I will talk about something which is just as worthwhile as cleaning one’s own package. When you install / uninstall new apps you may have packages left over which take […]