[mdlug] System call to get CPU Info

[Ron Blanchett]

Just about all of that info is available in /proc/cpuinfo



On 4/17/08, David Lane <dcl400m at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I just need to discover:
>
> 1. CPU brand
> 2. Clock Speed
> 3. Number of Cores
> 4. RAM
> 5. Cache L1, L2, L3
>
>
> David C. Lane
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: "Ingles, Raymond" <Raymond.Ingles at compuware.com>
> To: MDLUG's Main discussion list <mdlug at mdlug.org>
> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 10:32:44 AM
> Subject: Re: [mdlug] System call to get CPU Info
>
> > From: David Lane
>
> > Is there a system call to get CPU information?
>
>  Depends on what you're looking for. Linux generally avoids syscalls for
> that stuff,
> and uses the /proc filesystem. For information on the physical CPUs
> installed in the
> system, you can use "cat /proc/cpuinfo". For information on CPU usage, you
> can try
> "cat /proc/stat" and "cat /proc/loadavg", though you'll need to do some
> digging to
> understand what all the numbers mean.
>
>  Sincerely,
>
>  Ray Ingles                                         (313) 227-2317
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