How do I work out how powerful a given machine is?
I'm confronted with a bewildering array of linux boxen.

How do I find out how many processors they have, how many cores, how much RAM they have, how fast their disks are, how heavily loaded they are by competing people  etc, etc?
How do I work out how powerful a given machine is?
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I'm confronted with a bewildering array of linux boxen.

How do I find out how many processors they have, how many cores, how much RAM they have, how fast their disks are, how heavily loaded they are by competing people  etc, etc?