Hardware information of the test machine: View CPU information (model) # cat/proc/cpuinfo | grep name | cut-f2-d: | uniq-c 8 Intel (R) xeon (R) CPU E5410 @ 2.33 GHz (we can see eight logic CPUs and the CPU model is available) www.2cto.com # cat/proc/cpuinfo | grep physical | uniq-c 4 physical id: 0 4 physical id: 1 (actually two 4-core CPUs) # getconf LONG_BIT 32 (indicating that the current CPU runs in 32bit mode, but does not indicate that the CPU does not support 64bit) # cat/proc/cpuinfo | grep flags | grep 'lm '| wc-l 8 (the result is greater than 0, indicating 64bit computing is supported. lm refers to the long mode, and supports lm is 64bit) and then the detailed cpu information is fully read, but most of us do not care about it. # dmidecode | grep 'processor information' view memory Information # cat/proc/meminfo www.2cto.com # uname-a Linux euis1 2.6.9-55. ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Apr 20 17:03:35 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux (view the kernel information of the current operating system) # cat/etc/issue | grep Linux Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 5) (view information about the current operating system release) view the machine model # dmidecode | grep "Product Name" view Nic information # dmesg | grep-I eth author Kung Fu Panda