diff --git a/ci-scripts/cls_oaicitest.py b/ci-scripts/cls_oaicitest.py
index 69a06f906b..ba0ce0d9e8 100644
--- a/ci-scripts/cls_oaicitest.py
+++ b/ci-scripts/cls_oaicitest.py
@@ -254,8 +254,10 @@ def IdleSleep(HTML, idle_sleep_time):
 def Deploy_Physim(ctx, HTML, node, workdir, script, options):
 	logging.debug(f'Running physims on server {node} workdir {workdir}')
 	with cls_cmd.getConnection(node) as c:
+		sys_info = c.exec_script("scripts/sys-info.sh", 5)
 		ret = c.exec_script(script, 600, options)
 	logging.debug(f'"{script}" finished with code {ret.returncode}, output:\n{ret.stdout}')
+	HTML.CreateHtmlTestRowQueue('Query system info', 'OK', [sys_info.stdout])
 	with cls_cmd.getConnection(node) as ssh:
 		details_json = archiveArtifact(ssh, ctx, f'{workdir}/desc-tests.json')
 		result_junit = archiveArtifact(ssh, ctx, f'{workdir}/results-run.xml')
diff --git a/ci-scripts/scripts/sys-info.sh b/ci-scripts/scripts/sys-info.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..01dd4b0d6c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ci-scripts/scripts/sys-info.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+CORES=$(nproc)
+MODEL=$(lscpu | awk -F: '/Model name/ {print $2; exit}' | xargs)
+MAX_FREQ=$(lscpu | awk -F: '/CPU max MHz/ {printf "%.2f MHz", $2; exit}')
+CURRENT_FREQ=$(awk -F: '/cpu MHz/ {printf " %.2f MHz", $2; exit}' /proc/cpuinfo)
+RAM=$(free -h --si | awk '/Mem:/ {print $2}')
+# sudo -n: non-interactive, will silently fail in case we don't have privileges
+DMID=$(sudo -n dmidecode -t memory 2>/dev/null)
+if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
+  RAM_TYPE=$(echo "$DMID" | awk -F: '/Type:/ {print $2}' | grep -Ev 'Unknown|Other|None' | head -1 | xargs)
+else
+  RAM_TYPE="can't query"
+fi
+
+
+echo "CPU: model ${MODEL}"
+echo "${CORES} cores, max CPU freq ${MAX_FREQ}, current ${CURRENT_FREQ}"
+echo "RAM ${RAM} type ${RAM_TYPE}"