Basic Commands for Linux which every system administrator must knows to check the load of Linux.
1) w
just type w and you will see this result.
root@my [~]# w
05:28:13 up 35 days, 1:01, 1 user, load average: 0.20, 0.16, 0.15
2) uptime
just type uptime and you will see this result.
root@my [~]# uptime
05:30:40 up 35 days, 1:04, 1 user, load average: 0.17, 0.13, 0.14
3) top
this is the main command which shows all the current load and average after type top press c to see all commands details.
4) cat /proc/loadavg
this command shows the current load average of linux system.
root@ld [~]# cat /proc/loadavg
0.10 0.11 0.13 2/238 19724
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