Wednesday, December 14, 2011

important system information files in ubuntu

In ubuntu there is a directory which contains all the information of the hardware of the running system,which is /proc.

Given below are important and frequently used files you can find inside /proc directory.

/proc/cpuinfo – this file contains information about CPU such as vendor_id,cpu family,model
,model name,cpu MHz,cache size etc.

/proc/meminfo – this file contains information about memory such as MemTotal, MemFree, BuffersCached,SwapCached,Active,Inactive etc.

/proc/loadvg – this file contains cpu load average information in last 1,5,15 minutes respectively.

/proc/partitions – this file contains partition related information.

/proc/version – this file contains linux version and gcc version of the system.

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