Unix Newbie Question

[Michael B]

This is a quick question, but how do you check the system resources on
a SCO Unix box. Its SCO Openserver 5.0.5, and I basically just want to
check the following items:

Total RAM
Available RAM
CPU speed
CPU load
Total/Free/Used disk space

I have been looking on the internet for some tutorials, but I cant
seem to find any that help. I inherited this machine with my job
title, but unfortunately Im a "Windows Child" and am having a hard
time in a Unix environment.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

[Scott McMillan]

On 30 Jul 2003 09:41:41 -0700, [email]mbitton@cs-dist.com[/email] (Michael B) wrote:

>This is a quick question, but how do you check the system resources on
>a SCO Unix box. Its SCO Openserver 5.0.5, and I basically just want to
>check the following items:
>
>Total RAM

logged in as or su'ed to root:
hw -v | more

>Available RAM

sar -r <interval in seconds> <number of samples> (eg. sar -r 10 5)

>CPU speed

hw -v

>CPU load

sar -u <interval in seconds> <number of samples> (eg. sar -u 10 5)

>Total/Free/Used disk space

df -vk or dfspace

>
>I have been looking on the internet for some tutorials, but I cant
>seem to find any that help. I inherited this machine with my job
>title, but unfortunately Im a "Windows Child" and am having a hard

^^^^^^^^^^^^
Sorry to hear that! ;-)

>time in a Unix environment.
>
>Any help is greatly appreciated!

Be sure to read through the man pages for the above commands to get a
handle on the various options. (man <commandname>).


Scott McMillan

[Dale Stover]

"Michael B" <mbitton@cs-dist.com> wrote in message
news:9f062509.0307300841.2af06c68@posting.google.c om...

> This is a quick question, but how do you check the system resources on
> a SCO Unix box. Its SCO Openserver 5.0.5, and I basically just want to
> check the following items:
>
> Total RAM
> Available RAM
> CPU speed
> CPU load
> Total/Free/Used disk space
>
> I have been looking on the internet for some tutorials, but I cant
> seem to find any that help. I inherited this machine with my job
> title, but unfortunately Im a "Windows Child" and am having a hard
> time in a Unix environment.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated!

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[tony@aplawrence.com]

Michael B <mbitton@cs-dist.com> wrote:

>This is a quick question, but how do you check the system resources on
>a SCO Unix box. Its SCO Openserver 5.0.5, and I basically just want to
>check the following items:

>Total RAM
>Available RAM
>CPU speed
>CPU load
>Total/Free/Used disk space

Others have answered those..

>I have been looking on the internet for some tutorials, but I cant
>seem to find any that help. I inherited this machine with my job
>title, but unfortunately Im a "Windows Child" and am having a hard
>time in a Unix environment.

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