{"id":1626,"date":"2023-09-21T09:12:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T09:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prolimehost.com\/blogs\/?p=1626"},"modified":"2023-09-22T16:20:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T16:20:03","slug":"tips-for-managing-your-linux-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prolimehost.com\/blogs\/tips-for-managing-your-linux-server\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips for managing your Linux server"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ManagingHere’s a few\u00a0tips for managing your Linux server. Each is designed to help you in one way or another to diagnose issues or simply perform routine tasks.<\/p>\n

Check current memory usage<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you need to determine the amount of memory that your server is currently using, use the command free -m. What you\u2019ll see are numbers for total, used, free, shared, buffers and cached.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s say your total shows 3995 megabytes (RAM), used shows 2825, free shows 1170 and cached shows 932. Those 932 megabytes stored in cache will remain there UNLESS the operating system requires that space.<\/p>\n

This is where a number of folks get confused as they interpret the result as only 1170 available, when in reality, it\u2019s 1170+932 or 2102. That is the real number of megabytes available to your server, for example when you initiate a new process, or run an application that requires additional memory.<\/p>\n

\"monitoring\"Monitoring I\/O usage <\/strong><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s say you need to diagnose I\/O related issues to determine status related to swap utilization, system activity, I\/O wait and memory. Try using vmstat.<\/p>\n

This is similar to the free -m command, but the column to look for here is wa, which shows the amount of time that the processor waits for I\/O actions to complete.<\/p>\n

When should you opt to initiate measures to address IO usage based on results here? It\u2019s when that number very often reads much higher than 0. Intermittent issues are a little harder to diagnose as you\u2019ll need to run this while the issue is ongoing.<\/p>\n

\"Upload\"Uploading files to a remote server<\/strong><\/p>\n

Try using scp to transfer files securely to your server. On your local computer, this is an example of what that command sequence would look like:<\/p>\n

scp ecommerce-info.tar.gz username@hostname.forexample.com:\/home\/username\/backups<\/p>\n

As you can see, scp needs to know the path of the file on your local file system that you want to be transferred.<\/p>\n

If you need to copy files the other direction, then simply reverse the order of the two paths.<\/p>\n

\"\"Searching package databases<\/strong><\/p>\n

Every now and then, a package name is not exactly intuitive, so one way to overcome this could be to use a yum search. For CentOS, simply use yum search [package name].<\/p>\n

Sometimes the name of a package isn\u2019t intuitive, based on the name of the software. As a result, most package management tools make provide an option to search the package database. These search tools may be helpful if you\u2019re looking for a specific piece of software but don\u2019t know what it\u2019s called.<\/p>\n

You can also discover additional in-depth information concerning the searched package, specifically its origins, dependencies and purpose \u2013 by using the commend yum info [package-name].<\/p>\n

Using grep to search for a string in files<\/strong><\/p>\n

Perhaps you need to search for a stream of text, for example, the output of a command or some type of pattern. The\u00a0grep\u00a0tool allows you to search a stream of text, such as a file or the output of a command, for a term or regex pattern.<\/p>\n

It also features addition options like -n which outputs the line number, or -H which prints the file name for each match.<\/p>\n

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