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How can I find the hardware model in Linux?
I used a system information utility to take the model number of a system, and also of the motherboard.
DMI System Manufacturer LENOVO
DMI System Product 2306CTO
DMI System Version ...
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Hardware and software inventorying
Objective
Collect hardware and software information from lab computers, respecting students' privacy.
Type of information to collect
Examples:
System memory
Bash verion
JVM version
Operating ...
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How to find information about devices in Linux [duplicate]
I want to find the following information for devices in Linux:
Bus speed (e.g. 66 MHz)
IRQ settings
Vendor identification
AGP rate (e.g. 1x, 2x, 4x)
MAC address
I am only able find the last one ...
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Overclocking tools in Linux
I am trying to overclock my machine. All the changes are made on the BIOS level, but then one needs to check all the temperatures, voltages, etc and test the stability of the overclock. Most tutorials ...
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Understanding system load
I was looking at the system load of my shared hosting account.
$ uptime
09:14:37 up 21 days, 5:38, 4 users, load average: 3.85, 4.96, 5.21
I'm not worried by the first and second values, they ...
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How do I find out if my computer has PAE using Linux? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What do the flags in /proc/cpuinfo mean?
I tried installing CentOS 6.3 on my computer only to see a complaint that my computer doesn't have PAE. I am not sure if my ...
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Computer speed in flops
Nowdays, The speed of supercomputers are measured in Flops. Is there any linux command or tool that can calculate or gives the speed of a processor in Flops. If not, than how do we measure it.
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system monitoring tools
What command line utilities come standard with sunos to do system monitoring?
I've been able to find prstat, but I would like something that will tell me memory usage and IOWAIT as well.
It looks ...
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Is there a command or method (other than RTFM) to determine if a system has a UEFI BIOS?
My inspiration for asking this is this other question on Ask Ubuntu.
One reason I am asking is that I am just curious. I would like to know more about this for whatever value it might have in the ...
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Need help with understanding output of ps -ef on linux
When I do ps -ef on my Linux box, I get:
UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
Please help me with meaning of C,TIME.
is the TIME , the actual cpu time allocated to the process?
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lshw and lscpu disagree on caches - which is right?
I am trying to find out specifics about caches (in particular which caches are shared between cores and which are not) and have stumpled onto a inconsistency.
sudo lshw says
*-cache:0
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Generate a key (number?) based on part of the machine's hardware components
I'm wondering what is the best way to manually generate a hardware key based on certain components of the machine.
Here's the thing: I want only certain type of machines to be able to communicate ...
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How to get dmidecode information without root privileges?
I'm writing a program that displays various system information (on a CentOS system). For example, the processor type and speed (from /proc/cpuinfo), the last boot time (calculated from /proc/uptime), ...
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How can I tell what version of linux I'm using?
Often times I will ssh into a new client's box to make changes to their website configuration without knowing much about the server configuration. I have seen a few ways to get information about the ...
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What happens when I open and read from /proc?
Does the hard drive need to be accessed or is everything done in memory? Basically I would like to constantly get updated values from meminfo and cpuinfo.
Do I need to reopen the file and then reread ...
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Can I identify my RAM without shutting down linux?
I'd like to price some new RAM for our in-house VMware testing server. (It's a consumer box we use for testing our software on and running business VMs). I've forgotten what kind of RAM it has and I'd ...
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How to find information about the system/machine in Unix?
I have always found it difficult to find information about the system itself in Unix, whether it be
Which OS I am using (version number and all, to compare it with the latest available builds)?
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