Is there a way to tell if I am on a RaQ3 or a RaQ4?(shared hosting). There doesn't seem to be any indication of which RaQ version I've been put on from the siteadmin control panel.

The raq4 is slightly faster in processing cgi scripts that the only diffrence i can tell.

On a RedHat system you can do the following and it will give you all the details on the processor:

cat /proc/cpuinfo

Not sure if you'll have permissions to do that or not though.

If you can get shell access

the command:
dmesg

lets you know the configuration of the machine
the ram, harddrive, processor etc.

There is a lot of information, I generally pipe to a temp file and view the contents

ie

dmesg > temp
vi temp

later

David

Better yet, while at the shell type in:

dmesg | more

Originally posted by JTY
Better yet, while at the shell type in:
dmesg | more
yeah that works too. You say tom-AH-to, I say tomato :)

later

David

I ran the dmesg command, and got a lot of information. :) Thanks for the tip.

What should I be looking for to determine whether I'm on a RaQ3 or RaQ4?
For CPU, all it says is "AMD AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor stepping 0c", and I believe both 3 and 4 run off of AMD right?

a raq3 will be in the 300 mhz range and a raq4 will be in the 400 mhz range, you can tell from that.

else... does your raq support php4 and asp? it is most likely a 4. if not, most likely a 3.

jrichards,

did you try the command I mentioned?:

cat /proc/cpuinfo

This will tell you the actual speed of the processor. If it says 300mhz then you're on a RAQ3, and if it says 450mhz then you're on a RAQ4.

If you cat the dmesg file it should also tell you the speed of the processor:

Here is a sample output of this file:

[admin@ns log]$ cat dmesg
Linux version 2.2.12-20 (root@porky.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Mon Sep 27 10:25:54 EDT 1999
Detected 367500749 Hz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 366.18 BogoMIPS
Memory: 125588k/129024k available (1008k kernel code, 412k reserved, 1620k data, 64k init)
...........
.........
....
etc...

The bolded line is the line you're looking for. As you can see, on this system the processor speed is 366 mhz.

[Edited by tabernack on 10-15-2000 at 07:00 PM]

tabernack,

Thanks! The cat /proc/cpuinfo command worked. It looks like I'm on a RaQ4. I no longer have to wonder. :)

processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 5
model : 8
model name : AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor
stepping : 12
cpu MHz : 448.211767
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
sep_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mmx 3dnow
bogomips : 894.57
temperature : 36

Yep,

looks like you're on a RAQ4. Glad it worked. I wasn't sure that you would have permissions to access it or not.
:)

Not knowing how to figure out the specs on my dedicated server bothered me for a while till I discovered the dmesg command.

Most dedicated providers will probably give you what they say they will, but it is good to *know* for sure!

David