A standard way to get information about CPU, memory, and other activity on your system is by examining info in /proc. In addition, an array of tools is available in Linux to obtain specific pieces of information. The sysstat package contains many of them, for example, iostat to collect CPU and I/O statistics, pidstat to collect health statistics for each process, and sar and sadc to collect similar statistics as cron jobs. Just as a sample, running iostat on a VM running the entire trade network and the chaincode yields the following CPU info and I/O statistics for the two virtual hard drives:
Linux 4.4.0-127-generic (ubuntu-xenial) 05/28/2018 _x86_64_ (2 CPU) avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait ...
