Dual-Core capable?

[dsueck]

Hello Folks,

How can I tell through the OS if a linux box is Dual-Core capable?

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Dean

[techieMoe]

I'm not sure what you mean. Are you planning on upgrading your CPU and want to know if your motherboard supports dual-core processors, or are you wondering if the Linux operating system supports dual-core processors? If it's the second, then yes. Linux supports dual-core and multiprocessor systems just fine.

[dsueck]

Sorry to be so imprecise.

I deal with a large number of machines, linux and windows.

I'd like to know if there's an OS command that I can use to tell if the current machine I'm on is a dual-core.

thanks

[techieMoe]

Sorry to be so imprecise.

I deal with a large number of machines, linux and windows.

I'd like to know if there's an OS command that I can use to tell if the current machine I'm on is a dual-core.

thanks

Dual-core machines generally show up as having 2 processors, so if you know for a fact that none of your machines have more than one CPU and they show up with 2 they're either Hyperthreaded Pentiums or dual-cores. I usually look at this in the Control Panel of KDE, but I'm sure there's a command somewhere... perhaps this will help?

http://www.perpetualpc.net/srtd_cpu_info.html

[DThor]

A quickie, less windows manager-centric thing you can also do is enter

cat /proc/cpuinfo

DT