Things I've found useful

Just found this useful little tool for summerising machine information read from /proc. I can’t find a home page for it but it can be downloaded from ftp://ftp.cistron.nl/pub/people/svm/. It seems to ship by default with at least SUSE 9.3 and Fedora Core 4.

Example output below

[root@eddie ~]# procinfo
Linux 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 (bhcompile@decompose.build.redhat.com) \
(gcc 4.0.0 20050525 ) #1 Thu Jun 2 22:55:56 EDT 2005 1CPU [eddie]
Memory:      Total        Used        Free      Shared     Buffers
Mem:        515372      446196       69176           0      113048
Swap:      1048568         912     1047656
Bootup: Sun Jul 17 08:47:22 2005    Load average: 0.43 0.22 0.08 1/138 11716
user  :       3:36:41.09   1.7%  page in :        0
nice  :       1:20:51.42   0.6%  page out:        0
system:       3:40:27.39   1.7%  swap in :        0
idle  :   8d 17:08:50.87  96.0%  swap out:        0
uptime:   9d  1:46:23.08         context : 98642479
irq  0: 784129991 timer                 irq  8:         1 rtc
irq  1:         9 i8042                 irq  9:         0 acpi
irq  2:         0 cascade [4]           irq 10:   6170092 CMI8738-MC6, ehci_hc
irq  3:         5                       irq 11:         0 uhci_hcd:usb2, uhci_
irq  4:         5                       irq 12:      2114 i8042
irq  5:         0 uhci_hcd:usb1, yenta  irq 14:   2132585 ide0
irq  6:         5                       irq 15:   2955294 ide1
[root@eddie ~]#