Hi everyone! I want to make a program that looks like Sandra but for linux. Can you tell me any commands that may be useful? For example glxgears is a perfect solution for the video test. Is there anything like that which tests other devices ?

May I ask what you're programming it in?

pci devices: lspci
all dev: lsdev (shows irqs and bunch of stuff)
show usb devices: lsusb
plug n play devices: lspnp
list currently loaded kernel modules: lsmod

To get CPU information, flags, and such: cat /proc/cpuinfo

There is a LOT of other files you can get the contents from in /proc by using the cat command as well.

Just to get you started. I like sandra for the PC. Useful for getting information about devices.

another useful command is:
memtest

see the man page for info about it... can test memory for problems (cpu intensive!)

there is also hdparm to display the info of ur harddisk

1. I'm programming in C++, using Qt
2. Good for hdparm, memtest, cat /proc/* and ls* . But let's see how I can test the processor for example. Is it a good idea to make it cycle and see how many cycles it makes for some time ? Will that algorithm return an objective result ? Or will it be subjective ?