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Analyze system processes and optimize

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Analyze system processes and optimize

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- [Instructor] Before buying more hardware it's a good idea to analyze the system processes and optimize the running of the system. As I mentioned in the network troubleshooting video treat this as a list of tools that you want to be familiar with, not only for your job but for the exam. This video is not a tutorial on how to use these tools nor is this an exclusive list. However, the creators of the exam listed each tool in this video, so there's a chance you may run into them again. Let's start with CPU monitoring and configuration. We can get information about the CPU or CPUs by viewing /proc/cpuinfo. We can check the system uptime with the uptime command. The system CPU usage can be acquired using the loadaverage command. These are all pretty simple tools so far. The next tool is sar. Sar is a much more complex tool. It reads many different pieces of data from the system and creates reports. If you want to export…

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