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Performance Measurement commands for Unix

If you have been following my ongoing video tutorials on jmeter performance testing then you may have wondered what server side statistics should be gathered during performance testing. We have not yet looked in to specific statistics which we should gather for server side monitoring. In this post we would have a look at useful linux commands which can be used to gather several important performance statistics. We would use these commands in future performance testing tutorials to gather server side performance statistics. Most of the description of these commands is from command "man"ual. So lets begin -  

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