How to Check and Upgrade your Linux Kernel Version via Command Line in CentOS 7

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This article describes how to check and upgrade the Linux kernel in OpenVZ, KVM, and Dedicated Servers (including the CloudLinux platform). Checking the Kernel Version To check system parameters such as the kernel version and build date, OS architecture, hostname, etc., you can use the uname command, which is included in coreutils package: # uname -rv 3.10.0-693.11.6.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Jan…

How to Check Apache Concurrent Connections in Linux Using netstat and ss Command?

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What’s ss Command? ss stands for socket statistics. It is used to dump socket statistics about network/socket connections. It’s showing information similar to netstat, it works better and faster compared with netstat. It can display more TCP and state information than other tools. Since the ss command gets all the information directly from kernel space…