My Workday

As performance engineer I come across various problems.� Here is one when the server crashed due to lack of free memory. See the error here.
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To get a list of all running processes, enter the command “ps auxw”. You might also want to try using “ps auxf” (or “ps auxfw” if the lines get truncated) – this prints everything in a nice tree format that may give you a better understanding of how and why things are running.

To get a complete listing of all listening network services using netstat, enter: netstat -altpu

You can also get similar information using lsof by entering: lsof -i | egrep -i ‘LISTEN|UDP’

Pattern matching example:

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awk '/foo1/ && /foo2/ { print $1 }'

To use shell variables simply do the following:

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foo1={pattern1}
foo2={pattern2}
 
awk "/$foo1/ && /$foo2/"'{ print $1 }'

Crontab syntax :
A crontab file has five fields for specifying day , date and time followed by the command to be run at that interval.

* in the value field above means all legal values as in braces for that column.

The value column can have a * or a list of elements separated by commas. An element is either a number in the ranges shown above or two numbers in the range separated by a hyphen (meaning an inclusive range).



Logical Volume Management provides benefits in the areas of disk management and scalability. It is not intended to provide fault-tolerance or extraordinary performance. For this reason, it is often run in conjunction with RAID, which can provide both of these. Read more…