SYS 140: Linux I O lab - WanderlustPenguin/Charles-Tech-Journal GitHub Wiki

  • Linux is very finicky
  • turning things off and on again sometimes helps, even if it doesn't make much sense it would
  • need to avoid any errors in spacing or capitalization
  • Does not let you know what you did wrong
  • Control +C stops any current programs
  • Most tools need to be downloaded before being used in terminal
  • iostat- gives a statistics report on many parts of the system, needs to be downloaded
  • Can be used to locate specific problems
  • ioping -c xx .- checks I/O performance of directory, x is the number of pings, needs to be downloaded, period is part of command
  • Determines the ability of directory to communicate with the rest of the computer
  • sudo apt install xxx- command to download commands, x is the name of the downloaded commands
  • Useful for installing specialized commands
  • If there are issues downloading something, update the computer
  • The last question is unable to be completed. sysbench failed to install, citing itself as unable to find IP: 91.189.91.39 80. Running the apt-get update command and the –fix-missing command was unsuccessful in fixing the issue. The aforementioned IP address seems to link to an Ubuntu website where the terminal has been downloading commands from. Several others had an identical issue, while one person was able to successfully download it in addition to the teacher.