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How to Check and Monitor CPU utilization on Linux

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Korbin Brown
Feb 10, 2020

As a Linux administrator, it’s important to keep an eye on how your server (or servers) is performing. One way to measure its performance is to track the CPU usage. This will give you insight into the performance of the system as well as show how the hardware resources are being divided up across the various running services.
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