The sar command, native to Solaris and often installed on Linux systems via the sysstat package, is extremely useful in analyzing current and recent system performance. On the other hand, if you would ...

Memory is still one of the things that most determines how well your Unix servers will perform. Knowing what commands will tell you what you need to know and what their responses mean will help keep ...

If the sysstat package isn’t installed on your Linux system (which it generally isn’t by default), you can easily grab a copy with your favorite Linux installer — typically one of the following ...