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Benchmark Fedora 13 using HardInfo

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Sometimes there is a need to benchmark your machine in order to report bugs or to troubleshoot. In Linux it’s fairly easy to benchmark your system. HardInfo is a small tool which will help you benchmark your system in Fedora 13.

HardInfo can gather information about your system’s hardware and operating system, perform benchmarks, and generate printable reports either in HTML or in plain text formats.

In order to install Hardinfo in Fedora 13, open a terminal window and type the following command:

su
yum install hardinfo

Once installed you can find it under Applications > System Tools > System Profiler and Benchmark

Following is how it looks.

You can perform various benchmarks for your system.

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This entry was posted by Vivek on June 20, 2010 at 1:15 pm, and is filed under Fedora, How-to, Linux. Follow any responses to this post through RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback from your own site.

nimd4

Yeah, well..:)

[home@localhost ~]$ su
Password:
[root@localhost home]# yum install hardinfo
Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: InstallMedia. Please verify its path and try again
[root@localhost home]#
Alberto Cueto

Yeah, the same is happening to me, I think there's a problem with that repository for now, but try it like this:

yum –disablerepo=InstallMedia install hardinfo

Actually, that error happens to me in every yum operation I try. :0

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