# of processors

[Dejan Nikic]

well i got SMP system and what cat /proc/cpuinfo gives me is:


processor	: 0
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 6
model		: 3
model name	: Pentium II (Klamath)
stepping	: 4
cpu MHz		: 299.347
cache size	: 512 KB
fdiv_bug	: no
hlt_bug		: no
f00f_bug	: no
coma_bug	: no
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 2
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov
mmx
bogomips	: 596.37

processor	: 1
vendor_id	: GenuineIntel
cpu family	: 6
model		: 3
model name	: Pentium II (Klamath)
stepping	: 4
cpu MHz		: 299.347
cache size	: 512 KB
fdiv_bug	: no
hlt_bug		: no
f00f_bug	: no
coma_bug	: no
fpu		: yes
fpu_exception	: yes
cpuid level	: 2
wp		: yes
flags		: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov
mmx
bogomips	: 598.01

On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 18:09, Phillip Garland wrote:
> cat /proc/cpuinfo gives:
> 
> cpu		: 740/750
> temperature 	: 53-57 C (uncalibrated)
> clock		: 233MHz
> revision	: 2.2 (pvr 0008 0202)
> bogomips	: 465.30
> machine		: iMac,1
> motherboard	: iMac MacRISC Power Macintosh
> L2 cache	: 512K unified
> memory		: 96MB
> pmac-generation	: NewWorld
> 
> so I'm guessing the equivalent command is: 
> 
> cat /proc/cpuinfo | egrep ^cpu | wc -l
> 
> which gives "1", as it should. I don't have a MP box or the kernel source around right now, so I don't for sure that this is correct. Ideally there should be a way to do this that is portable across architectures and recent kernel versions, but don't know what it is.
> 
> ~Phillip
> 
> On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Kolbe Kegel wrote:
> 
> > well what does the output of 'cat /proc/cpuinfo' look like?
> > 
> > and that's not ancient... if it works and you don't need the latest, 
> > latest feature, why upgrade? people are still using 2.2! (i use it on my 
> > router.)
> > 
> > --kolbe
> > 
> > Phillip Garland escribió::
> > 
> > >This seems not to work across all architectures or kernel versions. On my ppc box running Linux 2.4.16 (Yes, I know it's ancient, but it's worked better for me than more recent kernels), this gives 0. 
> > >
> > >~Phillip
> > >
> > >
> > >On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, J. Hughes wrote:
> > >
> > >  
> > >
> > >>This should do the job:
> > >>
> > >>cat /proc/cpuinfo | egrep ^processor | wc -l
> > >>
> > >>On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Scholz Matthew wrote:
> > >>
> > >>    
> > >>
> > >>>Let us just say that I need to know how many
> > >>>processors a linux machine has using.  Let us also say
> > >>>that I'm not sure exactly how to retrieve said
> > >>>information.
> > >>>
> > >>>Let us add for the sake of argument, that I would like
> > >>>a single command line argument which returns some
> > >>>useful sembalance of aforementioned processorial
> > >>>quantity.
> > >>>
> > >>>Is there such a beast?
> > >>>
> > >>>Thanx
> > >>>
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