Hey there,
Today, in keeping with yesterday's theme of covering a fairly specific topic and trolling it around the seamy underbelly of the world of Unix and Linux, we're going to take a look at how to grab CPU information from your Unix or Linux box. I try to cover the major distros here, but (of course) my resources are limited and (except for the HP-UX example below) I've personally run and verified all of the results of the commands put out in this post today. If you crave additional information about your particular Operating System and the CPU(s) on it, check out some of our earlier posts on CPU usage, monitoring, etc, for all sorts of Unix/Linux varieties. Hopefully, you'll find some useful information in the growing archives of this sprawling morass of letters and numbers (by which I, of course, mean this blog ;)
On to today's business! For each OS, we'll be listing the OS name, followed by a practical line of code that you should, hopefully, be able to cut-and-paste onto your own system to get your specific information. Also, for each, we'll list the actual output that my trials produced, except for the HP-UX exception already noted.
1. Listing out CPU information on Solaris (Note that these "virtual" CPU's are actually real):
host # psrinfo -v| awk 'BEGIN{cpua=0;cpub=0}{if ( $0 ~ /Status.*processor/ ) {print $0;cpua=1} else if ( cpua == 1 ) {printf"%s ", $1;cpua=0;cpub=1} else if ( cpub == 1 ) {penult=NF-1;print $penult,$NF;cpub=0}}'|sed 's/,$//'
Status of virtual processor 0 as of: 11/12/2008 13:53:47
on-line 650 MHz
Status of virtual processor 1 as of: 11/12/2008 13:53:47
on-line 650 MHz
2. Listing out CPU information on SUSE and/or RedHat Linux:host # cat /proc/cpuinfo|egrep 'processor|model name'|awk -F":" 'BEGIN{i=0}{if ( ! i%2 ) {printf"%s %d: ", $1,$2;i++} else {print $2;i=0}}'
processor 0: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.40GHz
processor 1: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.40GHz
processor 2: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.40GHz
processor 3: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.40GHz
3. Listing out CPU information on AIX 5.x:
host /# pmcycles -m
CPU 0 runs at 1200 MHz
CPU 1 runs at 1200 MHz
CPU 2 runs at 1200 MHz
CPU 3 runs at 1200 MHz
CPU 4 runs at 1200 MHz
CPU 5 runs at 1200 MHz
CPU 6 runs at 1200 MHz
CPU 7 runs at 1200 MHz
4. Listing out CPU information on HP-UX (as generally as possible). This bit of code is sewn together from exemplary commands on SysDigg's HP-UX CPU Info Page, since I can't get my hands on an HP-UX box right now, and the information gathering process is more convoluted than any of the preceding distro's (We're not even going to begin to talk about the new Itanium processors and/or differentiate between virtual and physical CPU's/Cores, etc. This is for a HP9000/800 model box):
host # pc=`ioscan -k |grep processor |wc –l `
host # pt=$(grep -i $(model |tr "/" " " \|awk '{print $NF}') \/usr/sam/lib/mo/sched.models |awk '{print $NF}')
host # ps=`echo "itick_per_usec/D" | adb /stand/vmunix /dev/mem | tail -1`
host # echo "Processor count: $pc - CPU Type: $pt - Speed: ${ps}Mhz"
Processor count: 2 - CPU Type: PA8700 - Speed: 750Mhz
Phew... Hopefully, the HP-UX information is correct (if not, please write in as I'd be glad to credit anyone with the correct answer if they can get to an HP-UX machine before I can :)
And, that's that. Quick and painless today ;) I promise to chew your virtual ear off tomorrow as I rant and rage for no apparent reason other than to possibly foment passive-aggressive revolution amongst the working class. Actually, whatever I have to write about tomorrow probably won't be "that" moving ;)
Cheers,
, Mike
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