[clug-talk] fujitsu support

[Shawn]

On Tuesday 18 April 2006 11:32, D Bhardwaj wrote:
> All of the above. I have little idea which commands to use to figure out
> the problem. As per Shawn's note, I will figure out 'dmesg' first and
> report back - it may take me a little while.

The commands I suggested should be entered at the command line.

dmesg gives you a bunch of info about your hardware and what is happening as 
the computer identifies it.  You'll have to look at it with a fine tooth comb 
to catch some problems.  For instance, if you had more than 1 gig of ram, 
dmesg might tell you that it is not using all of that - but you would have to 
know this is something that needs to be addressed, as it is not reported as 
an error or even a warning...  So, for some of it, you really need to know 
what hardware you have.

top is just an tool that shows what processes are running, and how much cpu 
time and ram they are using.  It runs continuously until you hit the Q key, 
or ctrl-c.

Shawn