At the command prompt, type top and press Enter. From the information displayed, write the answers to the following questions on a piece of paper:

1. How many processes are currently running?

2. How much memory does your system have in total?

3. How much memory is being used?

4. How much memory is used by buffers?

5. How much swap memory does your system have in total?

6. How much swap is being used?

7. What is the system load average over the last minute, last 5 minutes, and last 15 minutes?

2. Type q to quit the top utility.

3. At the command prompt, type free and press Enter. Does this utility give more or less information regarding memory and swap memory than the top utility? How do the values shown compare to those from Step 2?

4.At the command prompt, type vmstat and press Enter. Does this utility give more or less information regarding memory and swap memory than the top and free utilities? How do the values shown compare to those from Step 2?

5.At the command prompt, type uptime and press Enter. How do the load average values shown compare to those from Step 2?

6. At the command prompt, type dnf install iotop and press Enter. Press y when prompted to complete the installation of the iotop package.

7. At the command prompt, type iotop and press Enter. Which processes are using the most block storage device I/O? Press Ctrl+c when finished.

8. At the command prompt, type dnf install ioping and press Enter. Press y when prompted to complete the installation of the ioping package.

9. At the command prompt, type ioping /dev/sda and press Enter. After 10 measurements, press Ctrl+c. Note the average I/O values for your storage device. Why should you measure these values when the system is performing normally?

10. Type exit and press Enter to log out of your shell.