Recently our Pfsense gateway server was consuming too much CPU. Especially during high network activity. This blog post describes my experience with trying to optimize Pfsense.
ReadServer monitoring is a useful task that is performed by server administrators. Server monitoring involves keeping a check on the various parts of a server such as its CPU, Memory, Hard Disk, Network Traffic, Services and more. Server monitoring can avoid problems that can disrupt services.
ReadCPU and Memory monitoring is an important system administration task. It provides valuable information that can be used in resource planning and alert notifications.
ReadThe RAM on a server can be monitored using /proc/meminfo and awk commands. /proc/ is a special file system created by the Linux kernel which contains kernel related information such as CPU and memory usage. /proc/meminfo contains information about memory usage.
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