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Ubuntu: lshw is a small tool to extract detailed information on the hardware configuration of the machine. It can report exact memory configuration, firmware version, mainboard configuration, CPU version and speed, cache configuration, bus speed, etc. $ sudo lshw | less (or more) $ sudo lshw -ht...

Ubuntu: $ cat /proc/cpuinfo Sample Output: processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 15 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz stepping : 11 cpu MHz : 1596.000 cache size : 4096 KB physical id : 0 siblings ...

Overall you have two ways to monitor processes at linux host Static monitoring Most widely used command is ps (i.e., process status) command is used to provide information about the currently running processes, including their process identification numbers (PIDs). Here few useful options to gath...

To get general statistics about main components of Linux family of stat commands are extremely useful CPU To get processors related statistics you can use mpstat command but with some options it will provide better visibility: $ mpstat 2 10 Memory We all know command free to show amount of (r...

By using tools like lscpu as lscpu is an easy way to get CPU information. $ lscpu Architecture: x86_64 CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit Byte Order: Little Endian CPU(s): 4 On-line CPU(s) list: 0-3 Thread(s) per core: 1 Core(s) per socket: 4 So...