UNIX System Information

Extracted from http://www.bioinfo-user.org.uk/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=notes:unixsysteminformation

Operating System Information

OS: Generic

On all UNIX and UNIX-like systems the uname command can be used to get some information about the operating system and platform. The simplest usage is to display all the information available. For example:

Sun Solaris 2.6 $ uname -a SunOS hieracium 5.6 Generic_105181-03 sun4m sparc sun4m

Microsoft Windows XP system under Cygwin: $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.1 salix 1.5.3(0.90/3/2) 2003-09-01 13:15 i686 unknown unknown Cygwin

OS: IRIX

On IRIX systems uname supports an extra option to give a more readable form of the operating system revision:

% uname -R 6.5 6.5.11m % uname -aR IRIX alnus 6.5 6.5.11m 01101246 IP32

OS: Linux

A more complete operating system version string can be found in /proc/version: $ cat /proc/version Linux version 2.4.21-0.33mdkenterprise (qateam@updates.mandrakesoft.com) (gcc version 3.2.2 (Mandrake Linux 9.1 3.2.2-3mdk)) #1 SMP Wed Aug 11 10:09:17 MDT 2004

On many distributions the name and version of the distribution can be found in /etc/redhat-release: $ cat /etc/redhat-release Mandrake Linux release 9.1 (Bamboo) for i586

An alternative method is to use one of the [Standard Base] tools lsb_release: $ lsb_release -a LSB Version: 1.2 Distributor ID: Mandrake Description: Mandrake Linux Release: 9.0 Codename: dolphin

OS: OSF/1, Digital UNIX, Tru64

On OSF/1 the uname command provides all the information required to figure out the operating system version but only if you can interpret the version numbers: $ uname -a OSF1 laurus.woods V5.1 2650 alpha

To get the version string displayed on start-up, which includes the official version number, use sizer -v instead: $ sizer -v Compaq Tru64 UNIX V5.1B (Rev. 2650); Sun Mar 20 06:36:49 GMT 2005

The currently installed software packages can be listed with setld: $ /usr/sbin/setld -i Subset Status Description

------ -----------

OSFACCT540 installed System Accounting Utilities (System Administration) OSFADVFS540 installed AdvFS Commands (System Administration) OSFADVFSBIN540 installed AdvFS Kernel Modules (Kernel Build Environment) ... OSFXPRT540 installed Print X Server (Windows Applications) OSFXSYSMAN540 installed Graphical Base System Management Utilities(System Administration) OSFXVFB540 installed Virtual X Frame Buffer (Windows Applications)

Hardware Information

HW: Generic

On most UNIX systems the system log contains information about hardware detection. This is usually logged to /var/log/messages. On some systems the dmesg command can be used to get this information, as a normal user.

Virtual Memory

To get information on virtual memory use the vmstat command.

$ vmstat

procs     memory            page            disk          faults      cpu
r b w   swap  free  re  mf pi po fr de sr f0 s0 s3 --   in   sy   cs us sy id
0 0 0 268512  4968   2  27 50 50 60  0  4  0  0 10  0   41  562   36 78  3 19

HW: IRIX

On IRIX the hinv command provides a description of the current hardware configuration: % hinv CPU: MIPS R10000 Processor Chip Revision: 2.7 FPU: MIPS R10010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 0.0 1 195 MHZ IP32 Processor Main memory size: 640 Mbytes Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 1 Mbyte on Processor 0 Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes Data cache size: 32 Kbytes FLASH PROM version 4.16 Integral SCSI controller 0: Version ADAPTEC 7880

 Disk drive: unit 2 on SCSI controller 0
 CDROM: unit 4 on SCSI controller 0

Integral SCSI controller 1: Version ADAPTEC 7880
On-board serial ports: tty1
On-board serial ports: tty2
On-board EPP/ECP parallel port
CRM graphics installed
Integral Ethernet: ec0, version 1
Iris Audio Processor: version A3 revision 0
Video: MVP unit 0 version 1.4

with no AV Card or Camera.

Vice: TRE

HW: Linux

The /proc filesystem contains various files that can be used to obtain information about the hardware present in a system.

HW: Linux: CPU

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : CentaurHauls cpu family : 6 model : 7 model name : VIA Samuel 2 stepping : 3 cpu MHz : 599.723 cache size : 64 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu de tsc msr cx8 mtrr pge mmx 3dnow bogomips : 1196.03

HW: Linux: Memory

$ cat /proc/meminfo

       total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:

Mem: 489811968 410542080 79269888 0 56160256 177897472 Swap: 1069244416 21245952 1047998464 MemTotal: 478332 kB MemFree: 77412 kB MemShared: 0 kB Buffers: 54844 kB Cached: 168512 kB SwapCached: 5216 kB Active: 78072 kB Inactive: 229604 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 478332 kB LowFree: 77412 kB SwapTotal: 1044184 kB SwapFree: 1023436 kB

HW: Linux: PCI Devices

On Linux 2.4 and earlier kernels examining /proc/pci will provide all the information on the PCI bus you could ever want: $ cat /proc/pci PCI devices found:

 Bus  0, device   0, function  0:
   Host bridge: PCI device 1106:3123 (VIA Technologies, Inc.) (rev 0).
     Master Capable.  Latency=8.  
     Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd0000000 [0xd7ffffff].
 Bus  0, device   1, function  0:
   PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP] (rev 0).
     Master Capable.  No bursts.  Min Gnt=12.
 Bus  0, device  13, function  0:
   FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 128).
     IRQ 12.
     Master Capable.  Latency=32.  Max Lat=32.
     Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xde000000 [0xde0007ff].
     I/O at 0xd000 [0xd07f].
 Bus  0, device  16, function  0:
   USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 128).
     IRQ 11.
     Master Capable.  Latency=32.  
     I/O at 0xd400 [0xd41f].
 Bus  0, device  16, function  1:
   USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (#2) (rev 128).
     IRQ 12.
     Master Capable.  Latency=32.  
     I/O at 0xd800 [0xd81f].
 Bus  0, device  16, function  2:
   USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (#3) (rev 128).
     IRQ 10.
     Master Capable.  Latency=32.  
     I/O at 0xdc00 [0xdc1f].
 Bus  0, device  16, function  3:
   USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 130).
     IRQ 5.
     Master Capable.  Latency=32.  
     Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xde001000 [0xde0010ff].
 Bus  0, device  17, function  0:
   ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233A ISA Bridge (rev 0).
 Bus  0, device  17, function  1:
   IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586B PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 6).
     Master Capable.  Latency=32.  
     I/O at 0xe000 [0xe00f].
 Bus  0, device  17, function  5:
   Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 80).
     IRQ 10.
     I/O at 0xe400 [0xe4ff].
 Bus  0, device  18, function  0:
   Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 116).
     IRQ 11.
     Master Capable.  Latency=32.  Min Gnt=3.Max Lat=8.
     I/O at 0xec00 [0xecff].
     Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xde002000 [0xde0020ff].
 Bus  1, device   0, function  0:
   VGA compatible controller: PCI device 1106:3122 (VIA Technologies, Inc.) (rev 3).
     IRQ 11.
     Master Capable.  Latency=32.  Min Gnt=2.
     Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd8000000 [0xdbffffff].
     Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xdc000000 [0xdcffffff].

On Linux 2.6 kernel systems the PCI device descriptions are no longer compiled into the kernel by default. So to get the descriptions use the lspci command: $ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8623 [Apollo CLE266] 00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP] 00:0d.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 80) 00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80) 00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80) 00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 80) 00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 82) 00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235 ISA Bridge 00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586/B/686A/B PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) 00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50) 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 74) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8623 [Apollo CLE266] integrated CastleRock graphics (rev 03)

HW: Linux: USB Devices

On Linux 2.4 and earlier kernels examining /proc/bus/usb/devices will provide all the information on the USB devices you could ever want: $ cat /proc/bus/usb/devices T: Bus=04 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=480 MxCh= 6 B: Alloc= 0/800 us ( 0%), #Int= 0, #Iso= 0 D: Ver= 2.00 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=01 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 2.04 S: Manufacturer=Linux 2.4.21-0.33mdk ehci-hcd S: Product=VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 S: SerialNumber=00:10.3 C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr= 0mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 2 Ivl=256ms T: Bus=04 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 2 Spd=480 MxCh= 0 D: Ver= 2.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=067b ProdID=3507 Rev= 1.00 S: Manufacturer=Prolific Technology Inc. S: Product=Mass Storage Device C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=c0 MxPwr=100mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=08(stor.) Sub=06 Prot=50 Driver=usb-storage E: Ad=01(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=0ms E: Ad=82(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS= 512 Ivl=0ms T: Bus=03 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 2 B: Alloc= 0/900 us ( 0%), #Int= 0, #Iso= 0 D: Ver= 1.00 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 0.00 S: Product=USB UHCI Root Hub S: SerialNumber=dc00 C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr= 0mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=255ms T: Bus=02 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 2 B: Alloc= 0/900 us ( 0%), #Int= 0, #Iso= 0 D: Ver= 1.00 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 0.00 S: Product=USB UHCI Root Hub S: SerialNumber=d800 C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr= 0mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=255ms T: Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 2 B: Alloc= 0/900 us ( 0%), #Int= 0, #Iso= 0 D: Ver= 1.00 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 P: Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 0.00 S: Product=USB UHCI Root Hub S: SerialNumber=d400 C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr= 0mA I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 8 Ivl=255ms

On 2.6 kernels use the lsusb command instead: $ lsusb Bus 010 Device 002: ID 2040:9950 Hauppauge Bus 010 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 011 Device 002: ID 2040:9950 Hauppauge Bus 011 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 009 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 008 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 007 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 006 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

HW: Linux: Firewire Devices

$ cat /proc/bus/ieee1394/devices Node[01:1023] GUID[0040635000009d72]:

 Vendor ID: `Linux OHCI-1394' [0x004063]
 Capabilities: 0x0083c0
 Bus Options:
   IRMC(1) CMC(1) ISC(1) BMC(0) PMC(0) GEN(0)
   LSPD(2) MAX_REC(2048) CYC_CLK_ACC(0)
 Host Node Status:
   Host Driver     : ohci1394
   Nodes connected : 2
   Nodes active    : 2
   SelfIDs received: 2
   Irm ID          : [01:1023]
   BusMgr ID       : [01:1023]
   In Bus Reset    : no
   Root            : yes
   Cycle Master    : yes
   IRM             : yes
   Bus Manager     : yes

Node[00:1023]  GUID[0050770e00071002]:

 Vendor ID: `Prolific PL3507 Combo Device' [0x005077]
 Capabilities: 0x0083c0
 Bus Options:
   IRMC(0) CMC(0) ISC(0) BMC(0) PMC(0) GEN(0)
   LSPD(0) MAX_REC(64) CYC_CLK_ACC(255)
 Unit Directory 0:
   Vendor/Model ID: Prolific PL3507 Combo Device [005077] / (1394-ATAPI rev1.10) [000001]
   Software Specifier ID: 00609e
   Software Version: 010483
   Length (in quads): 8

HW: OSF/1, Digital UNIX, Tru64

HW: OSF/1: System Type

The system type code name can be retrived using sizer: $ sizer -c cpu "EB164"

This a not a description of the processor, but instead describes the mainboard type. In this case the machine is a AplhaPC 164LX which is a sub-type of the EB164 class of machines.

HW: OSF/1: CPU

$ psrinfo -v Status of processor 0 as of: 10/24/05 15:51:11

 Processor has been on-line since 10/24/2005 15:47:29
 The alpha EV5.6 (21164A) processor operates at 532 MHz,
 has a cache size of 2097152 bytes,
 and has an alpha internal floating point processor.

HW: OSF/1: Hardware Summary

/sbin/hwmgr view devices

HWID: Device Name          Mfg      Model            Location
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   3: /dev/dmapi/dmapi
   4: /dev/scp_scsi
   5: /dev/kevm
  44: /dev/disk/floppy0c            3.5in floppy     fdi0-unit-0
  51: /dev/disk/dsk0c      SEAGATE  ST318437LW       bus-0-targ-0-lun-0
  52: /dev/disk/cdrom0c    LG       CD-ROM CRD-8400B bus-2-targ-0-lun-0
  53: /dev/random
  54: /dev/urandom

/sbin/hwmgr view hierarchy

HWID:   hardware hierarchy

  1:   platform Digital AlphaPC 164LX 533 MHz
  2:     cpu CPU0
  6:     bus pci0
  7:       connection pci0slot5
 20:         bus pci1
 21:           connection pci1slot1
 25:             graphics_controller comet0
 23:           connection pci1slot2
 26:             graphics_controller comet1
  9:       connection pci0slot6
 27:         scsi_adapter aha_chim0
 28:           scsi_bus scsi0
 51:             disk bus-0-targ-0-lun-0 dsk0
 29:         scsi_adapter aha_chim2
 30:           scsi_bus scsi1
 12:       connection pci0slot7
 31:         network tu0
 14:       connection pci0slot8
 32:         bus isa0
 33:           connection isa0slot0
 34:             keyboard keyboard0
 35:             pointer mouse0
 36:           connection isa0slot2
 37:             serial_port tty00
 38:           connection isa0slot3
 39:             serial_port tty01
 40:           connection isa0slot4
 41:             parallel_port lp0
 42:           connection isa0slot5
 43:             fdi_controller fdi0
 44:               disk fdi0-unit-0 floppy0
 45:           connection isa0slot6
 46:             network le0
 16:       connection pci0slot9
 47:         network tu1
 18:       connection pci0slot11
 48:         ide_adapter ata0
 49:           scsi_bus scsi2
 52:             disk bus-2-targ-0-lun-0 cdrom0
 50:           scsi_bus scsi3

HW: OSF/1: Memory

$ vmstat -P

Total Physical Memory = 512.00 M

                     =    65536 pages

Physical Memory Clusters:
start_pfn     end_pfn        type  size_pages / size_bytes

        0         256         pal         256 /    2.00M
      256       65526          os       65270 /  509.92M
    65526       65536         pal          10 /   80.00k

Physical Memory Use:

start_pfn     end_pfn        type  size_pages / size_bytes
      256         289    scavenge          33 /  264.00k
      289        1085        text         796 /    6.22M
     1085        1229        data         144 /    1.12M
     1229        1465         bss         236 /    1.84M
     1465        1664      kdebug         199 /    1.55M
     1664        1671     cfgmgmt           7 /   56.00k
     1671        1672       locks           1 /    8.00k
     1672        1686        pmap          14 /  112.00k
     1686        2000   unixtable         314 /    2.45M
     2000        2012        logs          12 /   96.00k
     2012        3499    vmtables        1487 /   11.62M
     3499       65526     managed       62027 /  484.59M
                            ============================
        Total Physical Memory Use:      65270 /  509.92M

Managed Pages Break Down:

      free pages = 45081
    active pages = 5177
  inactive pages = 0
     wired pages = 4805
       ubc pages = 6997
       ==================
           Total = 62060

WIRED Pages Break Down:

  vm wired pages = 888
 ubc wired pages = 0
 meta data pages = 1915
    malloc pages = 1303
    contig pages = 164
   user ptepages = 460
 kernel ptepages = 67
   free ptepages = 8
       ==================
           Total = 4805

HW: Solaris

HW: Solaris: CPU

$ psrinfo -v Status of processor 0 as of: 04/03/05 17:49:50

 Processor has been on-line since 04/03/05 15:54:58.
 The sparc processor operates at 75 MHz,
       and has a sparc floating point processor.

HW: Solaris: Hardware Summary

The prtconf command provides a lot of information about the hardware in a Solaris system, including the ammount of physical memory installed.

$ prtconf System Configuration: Sun Microsystems sun4m Memory size: 512 Megabytes System Peripherals (Software Nodes):

SUNW,Axil-320

   packages (driver not attached)
       disk-label (driver not attached)
       deblocker (driver not attached)
       obp-tftp (driver not attached)
   options, instance #0
   aliases (driver not attached)
   openprom (driver not attached)
   iommu, instance #0
       sbus, instance #0
           espdma, instance #0
               esp, instance #0
                   sd (driver not attached)
                   st (driver not attached)
                   sd, instance #0
                   sd, instance #1 (driver not attached)
                   sd, instance #2 (driver not attached)
                   sd, instance #3
                   sd, instance #4 (driver not attached)
                   sd, instance #5 (driver not attached)
                   sd, instance #6
           ledma, instance #0
               le, instance #0
           SUNW,bpp (driver not attached)
           SUNW,DBRIe (driver not attached)
               mmcodec (driver not attached)
           cgsix, instance #1
   obio, instance #0
       zs, instance #0
       zs, instance #1
       eeprom (driver not attached)
       counter (driver not attached)
       interrupt (driver not attached)
       SUNW,fdtwo, instance #0
       auxio (driver not attached)
       power (driver not attached)
   memory (driver not attached)
   virtual-memory (driver not attached)
   eccmemctl (driver not attached)
   TI,TMS390Z55 (driver not attached)
   pseudo, instance #0

UNIX System Information

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UNIX System Information

Operating System Information

OS: Generic

OS: IRIX

OS: Linux

OS: OSF/1, Digital UNIX, Tru64

Hardware Information

HW: Generic

Virtual Memory

HW: IRIX

HW: Linux

HW: Linux: CPU

HW: Linux: Memory

HW: Linux: PCI Devices

HW: Linux: USB Devices

HW: Linux: Firewire Devices

HW: OSF/1, Digital UNIX, Tru64

HW: OSF/1: System Type

HW: OSF/1: CPU

HW: OSF/1: Hardware Summary

HW: OSF/1: Memory

HW: Solaris

HW: Solaris: CPU

HW: Solaris: Hardware Summary

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OS: Generic

OS: IRIX

OS: Linux

OS: OSF/1, Digital UNIX, Tru64

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HW: Generic

Virtual Memory

HW: IRIX

HW: Linux

HW: Linux: CPU

HW: Linux: Memory

HW: Linux: PCI Devices

HW: Linux: USB Devices

HW: Linux: Firewire Devices

HW: OSF/1, Digital UNIX, Tru64

HW: OSF/1: System Type

HW: OSF/1: CPU

HW: OSF/1: Hardware Summary

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