[TriLUG] Dual core question

[Charles Fischer]

In the past I parsed /proc/cpuinfo looking for bogomips.  This works for 
Alpha systems and Intel.  This is what I am still doing, but would like to 
change.

-Charles Fischer

At 03:00 PM 5/23/2005, you wrote:
>Lee Fickenscher wrote:
>>I don't have any dual core boxes, but on linux couldn't you do something
>>like:
>>cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep -c processor
>>to get a core count? -Lee
>>Charles Fischer wrote:
>>>I would like to get a CPU core count from a Linux box.
>
>You need to modify that:
>
>cat /proc/cpuinfo | cut -f1 -d: | grep -c processor
>
>The reason is that my machine is a single processor, and here is the output:
>
>$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep -c processor
>2
>
>$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
>processor       : 0
>vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
>cpu family      : 6
>model           : 7
>model name      : AMD Duron(tm) processor
>stepping        : 1
>cpu MHz         : 1300.040
>cache size      : 64 KB
>fdiv_bug        : no
>hlt_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 pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca 
>cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse syscall mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow
>bogomips        : 2595.22
>
>$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | cut -f1 -d: | grep -c processor
>1
>
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