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I feel kind of embarrassed asking this. I have been running linux on pc's, dreamcasts, xboxes, and pocket pc's for over 5 years and I never even knew or figured out how to find the system specs.
I know there are many other ways of finding the specs but it would be much easier for me (for diagnosis purposes) if I could boot to a live cd and find out the processor speed (as its seen), amount of ram (onboard and video), and maby other things I might need to know.
Thank you both. I now know my video memory and cat /proc/cpuinfo gave me exactly what I needed from my cpu "flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe cid"
I will be sure to keep that info in a very safe place for refrence.
I ran this command "cat /proc/cpuinfo" on my ESX Server which i have 4 physical processors on. The info it gave me looks like it is for one processor. Is there another command for a multi processor server or is this all the info i can get from the OS? BTW i am new to linux. I am a windows guy but i am slowly getting to know linux.
P.S. Sorry to hi-jack the thread but this was where i found the command.
Thank you
Rich
The /proc/cpuinfo file will list all the processors that the kernel knows about. Are you running a kernel with multiprocessor (SMP) support? It would help if you posted the distribution you're using and the version you're using, as well as the output of uname -a.
I ran this command "cat /proc/cpuinfo" on my ESX Server which i have 4 physical processors on. The info it gave me looks like it is for one processor. Is there another command for a multi processor server or is this all the info i can get from the OS? BTW i am new to linux. I am a windows guy but i am slowly getting to know linux.
P.S. Sorry to hi-jack the thread but this was where i found the command.
Thank you
Rich
I don't know ESX at all (Just know what it is) but I wouldn't expect
it to pass info about physical devices on to the guest-OS by default.
How is ESX set-up? And, as someone else pointed out: what
type of kernel (or which distro, for that matter) are you running
on the guest?
Cheers,
Tink
P.S.: Welcome to LQ!
P.P.S.: You really shouldn't be hi-jacking others threads
the kernel is VMKernel. The ESX Servers are built on Red Hat 9.2 distro i believe.
running the uname -a command gets this "Linux vmesxsvr01 2.4.9-vmnix2 #1 Fri Mar 31 17:10:07 PST 2006 i686 unknown"
We have SMP Support in ESX. Not sure if that goes down to the linux console.
I am not running this linux instance as a guest OS this is what the physical server is built as. ESX runs redhat 9.2 as its footprint.
I am not able to install that tool at this time. I would like to do this with out it.
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