What/Where to locate the number of CPU?

[steeles]

I know I can get info from /proc/cpuinfo, but it gives me two cpu id, as it is dual core, even from yast2-> hardware information, it still shows 2 cpus. how to find out the physical cpu number? What command can do that?

or how to understand the information from /proc/cpuinfo?

Thanks.

[rong]

Interesting question. I run a single core p4 here and /proc/cpuinfo also shows two cpu entries, 0 and 1. I checked /proc/cpuinfo on a slackware box here which runs the same p4 and only one entry there.

I have no idea why.

If you really want more info about /proc/cpuinfo you can get some hairy details by googling!

[gogalthorp]

Interesting question. I run a single core p4 here and /proc/cpuinfo also shows two cpu entries, 0 and 1. I checked /proc/cpuinfo on a slackware box here which runs the same p4 and only one entry there.

I have no idea why.

If you really want more info about /proc/cpuinfo you can get some hairy details by googling!

Hyperthreading can look like a second CPU to some process.

AFAIK there is no difference between 2 physical CPUs and a mult CPU chip. There is a difference between Hyperthreading and multiple CPUs. I wonder why steeles even need to know this. Two CPUs are two CPUs wheither on single chip or on seperate ones. In fact at least till recently Intel's where two seperate pieces of silicon mounted in one carrier.

[steeles]

Reason I am asking is because I am going to purchase some software license, and that license is based on physical CPU number.

That is why I ask.

[unixite]

"physical id" in cpuinfo will tell you the IDs for each physical processor. Counting them will give you the result you need. Solution at theunixtips.com slash how-to-find-number-of-cpus-on-unix-system

grep “^physical id” /proc/cpuinfo | awk ‘{print $NF}’ | sort -u | wc -l