Determine system specs?

[Bai Shen]

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.

[jimp]

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

[Bai Shen]

I'll look into the Dashboard package.

And that told me what I needed.  Thanks.

[Bai Shen]

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?

[Cry Havok]

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

[Bai Shen]

@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.

[Cry Havok]

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.

[Bai Shen]

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