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Monitoring the kernel - Linux Tutorial
From the course: LPIC-2 Linux Engineer (201-450) Cert Prep
Monitoring the kernel
- Ever wonder what the kernel is doing in the background? I mean, it's doing something. Let's find out. - [Announcer] You're watching ITProTV. (mellow music) - Hello, welcome back to LPIC-2. I am Zach, and this is my bowling friend, Don. He's getting ready to... No, we were just talking about that before we started recording here. So we're talking about monitoring the kernel and taking a peek or, you know, raising the hood, so to speak. - Yeah, absolutely, you know, the kernel, it runs in the background. It's mostly invisible to us, but there are some things that we can watch and kind of see what it's doing, what it's interacting with, learn information about it. There's a whole way to peek in there and look if you want to. So, in this episode, we're going to learn about how that works, how we can see the kernel statistics, kernel activity, and even how we can interact with it a little bit. We can talk to the kernel and give it suggestions. Sounds a little creepy, but you'll see where…
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