Here I share that you can issue a command that will tell you how much memory is used or free as well as how much CPU is being used?
You start by telnet/ssh into my Ubuntu box so I would like to pull stats through issuing commands versus using VNC
Memory
To find what memory is being used and what is free you can issue the command
free -m
If you want to get information about your machine using a command issue
sudo dmidecode | more
or you can try and use
lshw
CPU
For CPU information, issue the command
cat /proc/cpuinfo
What I use personally which this tells me everything I need to know in most cases in one screen is the command
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