> > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:22:25 -0400 > From: John C Nash <nashjc [ at ] uottawa [ dot ] ca> > Subject: [OCLUG-Tech] How to find extended system information? > To: linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > Message-ID: <49DE20C1 [ dot ] 9030305 [ at ] uottawa [ dot ] ca> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > For some benchmarking tests I want to do, I'd like to be able to use > command line tools to get the following information (not only for Linux > -- my tests will be on Mac and PC too, but that will come later): > > - OS version, by which I mean not just the "uname -a" stuff, but also > whether I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 or Debian Lenny. > - Processor (uname seems to be a bit sketchy on this) > - RAM installed (Is free good enough? It needs interpretation. I'd like > RAM available to the application I'm running.) > - possibly other stuff You can run lspci to list all the devices hooked to your pci bus. And lsscsi to list all the SATA and SCSI devices. Charles > > > It seems like some of this information is available, but I'd like to > prepare a script that collects and organizes it. That way I might have a > hope of getting equivalent information on other platforms. > > Thanks, > > JN