VPS

Check CPU/RAM/disk usage

Monitor CPU, memory and disk usage on your Victus VPS from the panel graphs and with standard Linux commands to spot bottlenecks.

cpurammemorydisk usagemonitoringhtopdf

Keeping an eye on resource usage tells you when to optimise, upgrade your plan, or hunt down a runaway process. Victus gives you live CPU/RAM/disk graphs in the panel, and inside the machine you have the full set of Linux tools.

From the control panel

The VPS overview at control.victuscloud.com shows live CPU, memory and disk usage against your plan limits. This is the fastest at-a-glance check and works even when you cannot SSH in.

From the command line

bash

# Live process view sorted by CPU/RAM (press q to quit)
htop            # install with: apt install -y htop
top             # always available

# Memory usage, human-readable
free -h

# Disk space per filesystem
df -h

# What is eating disk in the current dir (top offenders)
du -h --max-depth=1 / 2>/dev/null | sort -h | tail -20

Dig into a specific resource

bash

# CPU load average (1/5/15 min) and uptime
uptime

# Per-process memory, top 10 consumers
ps aux --sort=-%mem | head -11

# Inodes (a disk can be "full" with free space if inodes run out)
df -i

# Disk I/O in real time
iostat -x 2       # from the sysstat package

RAM "used" is not the whole story

Linux uses spare memory for disk cache, so "used" in free -h can look high. Look at the "available" column — that is what apps can actually claim before swapping.

Consistently maxed out?

If CPU sits near 100% or memory is exhausted and swapping heavily, either optimise the workload, add a swap file (see that article), or upgrade your VPS plan from billing.victuscloud.com. Watch disk usage too — a full root disk breaks services silently.

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