How to check CPU load in command line

top displays all sorts of CPU/Memory/Process information.

I believe that there is also ntop for monitoring network stuff but I've never used this myself.

free -m will show you stats about RAM usage in MB

uptime will show you the load average for the past 1min, 5mins and 15mins

cat /proc/cpuinfo will give you general information about the CPU(s)
 
'htop' is alo a good command

A great program for monitoring network traffic is iptraf which is in the repositories.


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