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      Bai Shen
      last edited by

      I know the main page shows me how much memory is used, the cpu load, etc.  But is there a way to show what the actual memory installed is?  Same with the cpu speed and hard drive size.

      Thanks.

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      • jimpJ
        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
        last edited by

        Some of that is shown more accurately if you have the Dashboard package installed.

        Everything (more than you want to know) is shown if you go to Diagnostics > Command and run

        cat /var/log/dmesg.boot
        
        

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          Bai Shen
          last edited by

          I'll look into the Dashboard package.

          And that told me what I needed.  Thanks.

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            Bai Shen
            last edited by

            I've held off on installing the dashboard package since it can't be uninstalled.

            However, I'm getting weird cpu spikes, and I can't figure out what's causing them.  Will the dashboard display information regarding that?

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            • Cry HavokC
              Cry Havok
              last edited by

              Log in to the console, or via SSH, and run the top command.

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                Bai Shen
                last edited by

                @Cry:

                Log in to the console, or via SSH, and run the top command.

                I did that, but nothing is showing up.  I can't seem to catch it when the spike is happening.

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                • Cry HavokC
                  Cry Havok
                  last edited by

                  You can drop the update interval from the default of 2 seconds to 1 second.  That may help.  You can also sort by other columns so try sorting by total CPU time and watch for the one that's changing the fastest.

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                    Bai Shen
                    last edited by

                    I finally caught some of the spike.  And it's PHP and Perl.  Not very helpful. :(

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