How can I check the system hardware information and the resources usage?
As far as resources usage is concerned, there 4 methods that come to mind.
If your programs on a VPS lack RAM, you can upgrade to another package or buy only additional RAM. This option is available for OpenVZ and XEN VPS servers. Here is a list of the most common commands and /proc files by which it is possible to determine system hardware information and resources usage. CPU information:CPU information can be found at /proc/cpuinfo file: CPU usage information can be viewed via top command Disk information:Disk partition information (not available for OpenVZ VPSs): Disk space usage: Inode information (not available for OpenVZ VPSs): File space usage (not available for OpenVZ VPSs): Check the bad blocks (not available for OpenVZ VPSs): Test the reading speed (hdparm is not included in all Linux distributions by default so additional installation may be required) (not available for OpenVZ VPSs): Memory information:Amount of free and used memory: Detailed memory usage report: Just another tool: Network interfaces:Detailed list of network interfaces: |