Monitoring the kernel - Linux Tutorial

- Ever wonder what the Colonel is doing in the background. I mean, it's doing something, let's find out. - [Announcer] You're watching ITProTV. (upbeat music) - Hello, welcome back to LPIC-2. I'm Zach and this is my bowling friend, Don, he's getting ready to-- No, we were just talking about that before we started recording. So we're talking about monitoring the kernel, taking a peak, raising the hood so to speak. - Yeah, absolutely. The kernel, it runs in the background. It's mostly invisible to us, but there are some things that we can watch and kind of see what it's doing, what it's interacting with, learn information about it. There's a whole way to peek in there. And look, if you want to. So in this episode, we're going to learn about how that works. How we can see the kernel statistics, kernel activity, and even how we can interact with it a little bit. We can talk to the kernel and give it suggestions, sounds a…