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Obtaining Usage Information on *nix Systems

Posted by Rose Bush on April 5th, 2013

When obtaining usage information, there are primarily 3 details you want to look at (for my needs, yours may vary) being CPU, RAM, Hard Disk. On many systems you can use the below commands:

On newer machines ( I think RHEL 6 and newer) you can use nproc in place of the first command:

There is also this very straight forward method below:

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