how many processors

Dave Martini 1 martini1 at llnl.gov
Wed May 9 17:20:26 UTC 2007


It's probably two physical cpu's but they are dual core which is why you 
would see
4 listed in /proc.


Herta Van den Eynde wrote:
> On 09/05/07, Dana Holland <dana.holland at navarrocollege.edu> wrote:
>> How can you tell how many processors a server has?  I always thought
>> that you could look in /proc/cpuinfo, but we recently had a Dell tech
>> here that said that was incorrect.  One of my servers shows 4 processors
>> in cpuinfo, but he said the box only has 2.  So, what is the correct way
>> to tell?
>>
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> Try this from the root account:
>
> # dmidecode -t processor
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Herta
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