Querying Linux for Hardware Info

[John Seth]

'cat /proc/cpuinfo' and 'uname' are the two best suggestions I've heard,
 but in regards to memory, 'cat /proc/meminfo' while the best, I'm
surprised I've yet to hear "free".  'free' normally report in KB,
whereas 'free -m' will report in MB, as usual, check 'man free'.

$ free
          total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:     515956     368960     146996          0      21660     187544
-/+ buffers/cache:  159756     356200
Swap:   1004052        220    1003832

$ free -m
          total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        503        365        137          0         21        183
-/+ buffers/cache:     161        342
Swap:       980          0        980

This is on a machine w/ 512MB RAM.

hth,

  Tony Evans
  Phoenix Wing Interactive
  johnseth at phoenixwing.com
  http://www.phoenixwing.com/



Daniel Parraz wrote:
> Could also use:
> 
> cat /proc/cpuinfo
> 
> To figure out the CPU family, bigo, etc
> 
> cat /proc/meminfo
> 
> To find out MEMORY info
> 
> Hope this helped.
> 
> Daniel Parraz
> Tucson, AZ
> 
> */"Eric \"Shubes\"" <plug at shubes.net>/* wrote:
> 
>     vodhner at cox.net wrote:
>     > KDE answers the questions below, if I select "System Tools" >
>     "Info Center"; but I need to be querying a series of boxes (some of
>     them with older Linux distributions) with only command line access.
>     So how do I ask Linux the following questions on the command line?
>     >
>     > 1. What kind of CPU?
> 
>     # uname -a
>     shows you a bunch of stuff. See man uname for more options.
> 
>     > 2. How much total RAM on the box?
> 
>     # top
>     q to quit. It refreshes automagically. Again, man top.
> 
>     > Thanks,
>     > Vic
> 
> 
>     -- 
>     -Eric 'shubes'
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