how many processors

[Andrew A. Neuschwander]

If you have a dual core setup, I'd ask your vendor if the licensing the 
per processor socket or per processor core. I've seen it both ways.

-Andrew
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Dana Holland wrote:
> Hadn't thought of that.  I need to know the number for licensing 
> purposes - I'm buying Tivoli client licenses, and the pricing is per CPU.
> 
> I ran the "dmidecode -t processor" command that someone recommended - it 
> brings back 2 entries for "Central Processor" - I'm assuming those are 
> the entries for the CPUs?
> 
> 
> Coleman, Kelley (HAC) wrote:
>> They must be two physical dual-core processors, right?  Do you need to
>> know the distinction for server maintenance purposes? 
>> Kelley Coleman
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> On Behalf Of Dana Holland
>>> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 11:12 AM
>>> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
>>>
>>> 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?
>>
>