By peterbucher
I have an Ubuntu 14.04 droplet configured to manage several services, among them a VPN. The VPN works but it is often slow and will sometimes randomly disconnect me, is there a reason why? I’m using UFW by the way.
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run this, and give me the output (as root/sudo), please:
ps -eo pcpu,pid,user,args | sort -k 1 -r | head -6
also, this:
ps -eo pmem,pid,user,args | sort -k 1 -r | head -6
These will tell me the top 6 processes, based on CPU (first command) and RAM (second command). From there, I can help you investigate what’s causing the bottleneck further.
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