Using 'du' against a directory and single filesystem and sorting i
du -hxc --max-depth=1 / | sort -n
Find command that displays the 10 largest files within the defined directory
find /tmp -mount -type f -ls | sort -k 7 -r -n | head -10
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snippets used to research low disk space
Using 'du' against a directory and single filesystem and sorting i
du -hxc --max-depth=1 / | sort -n
Find command that displays the 10 largest files within the defined directory
find /tmp -mount -type f -ls | sort -k 7 -r -n | head -10
snippets used to identify cause of high CPU usage
Top 10 CPU consuming processes
ps -eo pcpu,pid,user,args | sort -k 1 -r | head -10
Identify device encountering IO wait (x is optional and will display more details)
iostat -x 5
Identify processes encountering IO wait (and usually causing the IO)
ps -eo pid,stat,args,wchan | grep ' D'
And of course the awesome tool of 'sar' that is provided within the 'sysstat' package.
simple snippets to identify memory usage
Show top 10 memory consuming processes
ps xuaw --sort -rss | head
Display general memory summary
free -m
Display detailed memory breakdown
cat /proc/meminfo
simple mysql health check page
Although the below is very simple it can be a very useful and effective way to regularly check apache functionality and its ability to communicate with mysql.
<html>
<head>
<title>Test mysql communications</title>
</head>
<body>
<!--test-->
<?php
$dbhost = 'localhost:3306';
$dbuser = 'trunty';
$dbpass = 'password';
$conn = mysql_connect($dbhost, $dbuser, $dbpass);
if(! $conn)
{
die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
}
echo 'Connected successfully';
mysql_close($conn);
?>
</body>
</html>
A URL that this can be seen in action is http://dev.linuxismybff.com/test/mysql/mysqltestconnect.php
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