Determine system specs?
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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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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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I'll look into the Dashboard package.
And that told me what I needed. Thanks.
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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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Log in to the console, or via SSH, and run the top command.
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@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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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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I finally caught some of the spike. And it's PHP and Perl. Not very helpful. :(
