glances – new way to look at contention

2018-06-04 1 min read Fedora
glances is like top/htop but little different. It shows you sort based on contention (smartly and automatically) unless you change that and hence if you just want to check what is biggest bottleneck in system, then head over to glances quickly. Here is quick description from dnf info command Name : glances Version : 2.11.1 Release : 2.fc28 Arch : noarch Size : 3.2 M Source : glances-2.11.1-2.fc28.src.rpm Repo : @System From repo : fedora Summary : CLI curses based monitoring tool URL : https://github. Continue reading

Are you swapped? Increase the performance of Linux machine.

2010-07-14 2 min read Fedora Linux
With the ever increasing cost of the Hardware, the amount of physical RAM available on the system is increasing day by day. For example, couple of years back, I had a system which was very high end Desktop with 256MB RAM and today I have a 2GB RAM Desktop. So, whats the point. The Linux systems (right word should be kernel) are desiged to use both RAM and swap partition. Continue reading