glances – new way to look at contention

glances is like top/htop but little different. It shows you sort based on contention (smartly and automatically) unless you change that and hence if you just want to check what is biggest bottleneck in system, then head over to glances quickly. Here is quick description from dnf info command

Name : glances

Version : 2.11.1

Release : 2.fc28

Arch : noarch

Size : 3.2 M

Source : glances-2.11.1-2.fc28.src.rpm

Repo : @System

From repo : fedora

Summary : CLI curses based monitoring tool

URL : https://github.com/nicolargo/glances

License : GPLv3

Description : Glances is a CLI curses based monitoring tool for both GNU/Linux and BSD.

Glances uses the PsUtil library to get information from your system.

It is developed in Python.

power saving on laptop

One of the easiest way to make sure that you can have a decent battery life is

sudo yum install tlp smartmontools
sudo systemctl enable tlp
sudo systemctl start tlp

And after this you can check the status like this:

sudo tlp stat
— TLP 0.9 ——————————————–

+++ Configured Settings: /etc/default/tlp
TLP_ENABLE=1
TLP_DEFAULT_MODE=AC
DISK_IDLE_SECS_ON_AC=0
DISK_IDLE_SECS_ON_BAT=2
MAX_LOST_WORK_SECS_ON_AC=15
MAX_LOST_WORK_SECS_ON_BAT=60
SCHED_POWERSAVE_ON_AC=0
SCHED_POWERSAVE_ON_BAT=1
NMI_WATCHDOG=0
ENERGY_PERF_POLICY_ON_AC=performance
ENERGY_PERF_POLICY_ON_BAT=powersave
DISK_DEVICES=”sda sdb”
DISK_APM_LEVEL_ON_AC=”254 254″
DISK_APM_LEVEL_ON_BAT=”128 128″
SATA_LINKPWR_ON_AC=max_performance
SATA_LINKPWR_ON_BAT=min_power
AHCI_RUNTIME_PM_TIMEOUT=15
PCIE_ASPM_ON_AC=performance
PCIE_ASPM_ON_BAT=powersave
RADEON_POWER_PROFILE_ON_AC=high
RADEON_POWER_PROFILE_ON_BAT=low
RADEON_DPM_STATE_ON_AC=performance
RADEON_DPM_STATE_ON_BAT=battery
RADEON_DPM_PERF_LEVEL_ON_AC=auto
RADEON_DPM_PERF_LEVEL_ON_BAT=auto
WIFI_PWR_ON_AC=off
WIFI_PWR_ON_BAT=on
WOL_DISABLE=Y
SOUND_POWER_SAVE_ON_AC=0
SOUND_POWER_SAVE_ON_BAT=1
SOUND_POWER_SAVE_CONTROLLER=Y
BAY_POWEROFF_ON_BAT=0
BAY_DEVICE=”sr0″
RUNTIME_PM_ON_AC=on
RUNTIME_PM_ON_BAT=auto
RUNTIME_PM_ALL=1
RUNTIME_PM_DRIVER_BLACKLIST=”radeon nouveau”
USB_AUTOSUSPEND=1
USB_BLACKLIST_WWAN=1
RESTORE_DEVICE_STATE_ON_STARTUP=0

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Benchmarking the system/CPU performance

Have you ever wanted to have a quick check on your CPU performance. I know that lot of people will say that this is not the right way to do this, but here is something that you can use to check the CPU speed.

#!/bin/bash -
#===============================================================================
#
#          FILE:  benchmark.sh
#
#         USAGE:  ./benchmark.sh
#
#   DESCRIPTION:  Benchmark the CPU
#
#       OPTIONS:  ---
#  REQUIREMENTS:  ---
#          BUGS:  ---
#         NOTES:  ---
#        AUTHOR: Amit Agarwal (aka), amit.agarwal@roamware.com
#       COMPANY: Roamware India Pvt Ltd
#       CREATED: 09/21/2011 11:46:03 AM IST
# Last modified: Wed Sep 21, 2011  12:22PM
#      REVISION:  ---
#===============================================================================

add ()
{
    COUNTER=0
    exec 2>&1
    time=$(exec 2>&1;(time while [[  $COUNTER -lt 100000 ]]; do ((COUNTER++)) \
        ; done))
    echo "Time for 100000 additions is "$time
}	# ----------  end of function add  ----------
mul ()
{
    COUNTER=0
    test=2
    exec 2>&1
    time=$(exec 2>&1;(time while [[  $COUNTER -lt 100000 ]]; do ((COUNTER++)) \
        ; ((test=test*2));done))
    echo "Time for 100000 mul is "$time
}	# ----------  end of function add  ----------
div ()
{
    COUNTER=0
    test=1000000000000
    exec 2>&1
    time=$(exec 2>&1;(time while [[  $COUNTER -lt 100000 ]]; do ((COUNTER++)) \
        ; (( test=test/2)); done)|tr -d '\n')
    echo "Time for 100000 divisions is "${time}
}	# ----------  end of function add  ----------

time add
time mul
time div

And here is the output :