General Checkup
How to check cpu model
lscpu
How to chech frequency on which your cores operate
cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep MHz
sudo cpupower monitor
How to check motherboard model
sudo dmidecode -t baseboard
How to check memory speed
sudo dmidecode | grep "Configured Memory Speed"
How to check speed of nvme drives
sudo lspci -vv | grep -B 75 nvme | grep LnkSta:
Should be 16GT/s for Gen4 drives and 32GT/s for Gen5. If less, report to us!
How to check temperature sensors
sudo ipmitool sensor
How to check serial numbers of all drives
Install smartmontools:
apt-get -y install smartmontools
Run this script to display the serial numbers of all NVMe disks installed in the system:
cat << \EOF | bash
for disk in $(lsblk -J -o NAME,MODEL,UUID | jq -rc '.blockdevices | map(select(.name | startswith("nvme"))) | .[] | .name'); do
serial=$(smartctl -a "/dev/${disk}" | grep Serial | cut -d: -f2- | tr -d ' ')
if [[ -z $serial ]]; then
serial="N/A"
fi
printf "Disk: %-12s Serial: %s\n" "${disk}" "${serial}"
done
EOF
Performance mode for CPU
How to check current mode
cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_governor
How to enable performance mode
apt-get -y install cpufrequtils
cat << \EOF > /etc/default/cpufrequtils
ENABLE="true"
GOVERNOR="performance"
MAX_SPEED="0"
MIN_SPEED="0"
EOF
systemctl restart cpufrequtils.service
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