Why Monitor System Performance from the Terminal? There are some really compelling reasons to monitor system performance from your Linux terminal, so here are six.

When I want to monitor my Linux system's performance, I turn to these handy apps to collect more data than I'll probably ever need.

If you want a quick view of a Linux system’s process load, you can use top or — slightly nicer — htop. But what if you want a quick snapshot of how the disk system is doing? There… ...

Process Monitor is a free utility that gives you detailed information about the processes running on your computer. It’s a powerful, configurable tool that was developed by Mark Russinovich as ...

In a previous tech tip, we saw how to use kill to monitor processes. Another option is to use ps. With both methods, you can check $? for success/failure. However, note that kill -0 may return failure ...

If you have a process ID but aren't sure whether it's valid, you can use the most unlikely of candidates to test it: the kill command. If you don't see any reference to this on the kill (1) man page, ...

Process accounting can provide a lot of details that can help monitor user and system activity on Linux. Here's a look at how it works and what kind of data it provides.

How to Monitor the Cron Script Process. Cron processes, or "cron jobs," may be used to start and stop applications within a Linux or Unix operating system. You can create cron jobs to perform ...

Rootkit component hides the crypto-mining process that causes high CPU usage from local, built-in Linux process monitoring utilities.