Monday, March 8th, 2010 Wondering which CPU (processor) your linux server is running on?Run this command from your shell: cat /proc/cpuinfoYou will be presented with detailed information of your processor like this: (It's for a Dual Quad-Code XEON, a dedicated server from WebHosting.com.bd, which is powering this site now)[root@cheetah ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 15 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU ...
(read more) Friday, March 5th, 2010 vnStat is a console-based network traffic monitor for Linux and BSD that keeps a log of network traffic for the selected interface(s). It uses the network interface statistics provided by the kernel as information source. This means that vnStat won't actually be sniffing any traffic and also ensures light use of system resources.You can download the latest version on vnStat here.How to install vnStat: wget http://humdi.net/vnstat/vnstat-1.10.tar.gz (replace vnstat-1.10.tar.gz with the latest version number)tar -zxvf vnstat-1.10.tar.gzcd vnstat-1.10makemake installCreate Database for vnStat: Every interface that should be monitored needs to be introduced to vnStat. For that you need to create a database for every interface ...
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