Re: [ILUG-BOM] Number of CPUs

Nadeem,

How do I determine the number of physical processors installed on my server from within the OS? I used to trust /proc/cpuinfo till I came across a Xeon box which had four physical CPUs, but /proc/cpuinfo reported eight. Talk of multithreading! Surely there must be a way to find the correct number of physical CPUs? Something like.. No of CPUs: 8 ( 4 Physical )

You can trust /proc/cpuinfo now too. For a standard Xeon proc, you shall see two CPUs in cpuinfo and for quad xeon processor you should be able to see 8 CPUs (and yes thats due to hyper threading)

Thanks & Regards, Mitul Limbani, Founder & CEO, Enterux Solutions, The Enterprise Linux Company (TM), www.enterux.com