It is quite a common situation when your server is out of memory and you want to check what processes are using all the RAM and swap. In this small note you’ll find two similar commands that can find out and sort top processes by memory usage on your Linux system. I’ve successfully used these […]
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Check a Website Response Time from the Linux Command Line
Test you website response time from the Linux command line with CURL. Total website response time Use the following command to get a total response time, in seconds. $ curl -s -w %{time_total}\\n -o /dev/null http://www.shellhacks.com Sample output: 0,117 Brief options description: Option Description -s Quiet mode. Don’t show progress meter or error messages -w […]
HowTo: TEST Internet Speed via Linux Command Line
If you need to troubleshoot an issue with slow Internet access on your Linux system, it would be a good idea to measure the current Internet speed. In this article you’ll find how to test Internet speed from the Linux terminal, using speedtest_cli – a simple command-line client written in Python for measuring Internet bandwidth […]