40.1 System Information

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Summary hardware specifications are available through wajig, as below. The hardinfo command is also available and provides a comprehensive graphical interface to every aspect of the system. For an exhaustive command line based summary of the hardware use inxi with the command line options -Fxz.

wajig sysinfo

Hostname:   maple
OS:         Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS (Focal Fossa) 5.4.0-70-generic
Computer:   Dell Inc. XPS 13 9380/0KTW76, BIOS 1.11.0 07/06/2020
Processor:  Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8565U CPU @ 1.80GHz x 8 = 3999.93 bogomips
Video:      Intel Corporation UHD Graphics 620 (Whiskey Lake) 256M
Audio:      Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP High Definition Audio Controller (rev 30)
Memory:     15GB RAM
IP:         127.0.0.1, 192.168.178.92 (local) 123.243.39.175 (external)
Uptime:     up 3 weeks, 2 days, 12 hours, 40 minutes since 2021-04-01 07:57:48
Load:       2 users, load average: 0.39, 0.74, 0.86
Reboot:     required for linux-base, linux-image-5.4.0-71-generic, linux-image-5.4.0-72-generic

BogoMIPS, under Processor, reports the bogus millions of instructions per second.

The information for each computer in the following sections includes the above plus some extra, The information comes from a variety of commands, including hardinfo, dmesg, dmidecode, lspci and lshw. Files like /proc/cpuinfo are also useful. The passmark metrics come from http://www.cpubenchmark.net.

$ dmesg | grep "DMI:" | cut -c6- | cut -d" " -f 3-              # Machine model

$ lscpu
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'name'| uniq                         # CPU
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep process| wc -l                       # Number of processors

$ wget -qO- https://www.cpubenchmark.net/laptop.html |          # PassMark
    grep $(cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep name | uniq -1 | cut -d' ' -f 7) |
    grep '<li' | perl -p -e 's|^.*prdname">||' |                # Change CPU string
    perl -pe 's|<.*count">| |' | perl -pe 's|<.*||'                 # Removes the HTML markup

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep bogomips                             # BogoMIPS
$ sudo lshw -C memory | egrep '(size|description)'              # Memory
$ sudo lshw -class memory | grep '\*-bank' | wc -l              # Available slots
$ sudo dmidecode | grep -i "Maximum Capacity:" | uniq           # Maximum capacity

$ sudo lsblk | grep disk                                        # List disks
$ sudo lshw -class disk -short                                  # List disks
$ cat /sys/block/nvme0n1/device/model                           # SSD Disk

$ sudo lshw -C network | egrep '(description|product|logical)'  # Network
$ lspci -k | grep -EA3 'VGA|3D|Display'                         # Video
$ lspci -k | grep -EA3 -i 'audio'                               # Audio
$ dmesg | grep -i input | grep -i touchpad                      # TouchPad
$ uname -r                                                      # Kernel

Intel processor information is avaiable from https://ark.intel.com.

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