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Checking and managing system resources

Checking and managing system resources

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Checking and managing system resources

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- [Male Voice] If your system is getting sluggish, it may be time to look for greedy processes or space constraints. You can look at disk resources with a df dash h command. I like to use the h flag, because it returns numbers in human readable formats, in megabytes or gigabytes, instead of in blocks. Here, I can see that on the root of my desk, I've used four point one gigabytes and I have 46 gigabytes available. Of course, I don't have much control over the rest of these file systems here. But it's nice to be able to see how much space is used on my root file system and the home file system. Using the top command, you can see what processes are running. This shows system CPU, memory, and swap usage, as well as all of the processes on the system. There's a bunch of key commands you can use with top and you can see them by pressing h. There are way more than I can go into here, but I encourage you to explore them, and to check out our courses here on LinkedIn Learning about system…

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