Simple Troubleshooting steps in Linux
Posted by Javeed Abdul on February 6, 2010 under Linux | 
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Hardware
Getting ram information
cat /proc/meminfo
or if you want to get just the amount of ram you can do:
cat /proc/meminfo | head -n 1
Another fun thing to do with ram is actually open it up and take a peek. This next command will show you all the string (plain text) values in ram.
sudo dd if=/dev/mem | cat | strings
Getting cpu info
Sometimes in troubleshooting we want to know what processor we are dealing with along with how much cpu is currently being used by our OS and programs. We can do this with these two commands.
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