Routing in Linux
Routing Table contains routes for forwarding the IP packets on each network interface. Commands to update the Routing Table are explained.
Routing Table contains routes for forwarding the IP packets on each network interface. Commands to update the Routing Table are explained.
logrotate is for rotation of log files daily, weekly, monthly, or when a log file becomes bigger than the predefined limit.
The sar command gives information about CPU, I/O, paging, devices, memory, swap space, network, run queue, interrupts and power management.
The pidstat command gives the CPU utilization, I/O statistics, page faults and memory utilization for processes and threads in Linux systems.
The mpstat command in a Linux system gives the CPU utilization report and the hardware and software interrupts per second for processors.
The iostat command for getting the CPU and input-output statistics for Linux and Unix systems is explained.
vmstat prints information about system processes, memory, swap, I/O blocks, interrupts and context switches and the CPU activity.
The uptime and w commands in Linux help in finding about the system uptime, load average and information about the logged in users.
The free command can be used to find the free and used memory in a Linux system. The free command is explained with an example.
Load average is an indication of whether the CPU(s) is/are adequately available for the processes during the previous n minutes.