System Administration

Essential System Tools: nmon – Curses based Performance Monitor

Last Updated on November 25, 2022

Kernel Internal Stats

Access the kernel and load average statistics by pressing k.

nmon16h-Kernel

You’ll recognize the load averages if you’ve ever run top or any of its variants.

Some of the information presented is repeated on other views.

Next page: Page 7 – Virtual Memory Stats

Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Introduction / Installation
Page 2 – In Operation
Page 3 – CPU Stats
Page 4 – Memory Stats
Page 5 – Disk Stats
Page 6 – Kernel Internal Stats
Page 7 – Virtual Memory Stats
Page 8 – Network Stats
Page 9 – Top-processes
Page 10 – Resources
Page 11 – Summary

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Mark Regan
Mark Regan
5 years ago

What terminal/window settings do I use in PuTTY when running nmon to get the correct line drawing?