About
CPU in a Linux context
How to
monitor
You can use the top or htop command line to get CPU monitoring metrics.
get information on the CPU ?
lscpu
lscpu
Architecture: x86_64
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 8
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-7
Thread(s) per core: 1
Core(s) per socket: 8
Socket(s): 1
NUMA node(s): 1
Vendor ID: GenuineIntel
CPU family: 6
Model: 63
Model name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2673 v3 @ 2.40GHz
Stepping: 2
CPU MHz: 2394.462
BogoMIPS: 4788.92
Hypervisor vendor: Microsoft
Virtualization type: full
L1d cache: 32K
L1i cache: 32K
L2 cache: 256K
L3 cache: 30720K
NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-7
where:
- x86_64 means:
- with a 64 bit word size
cpuinfo
1 block of information by core
cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 63
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2673 v3 @ 2.40GHz
stepping : 2
microcode : 0xffffffff
cpu MHz : 2394.462
cache size : 30720 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 8
core id : 0
cpu cores : 8
apicid : 0
initial apicid : 0
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 15
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl xtopology eagerfpu pni pclmulqdq ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 movbe popcnt aes xsave avx f16c rdrand hypervisor lahf_lm abm fsgsbase bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 erms xsaveopt
bogomips : 4788.92
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 44 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 63
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2673 v3 @ 2.40GHz
stepping : 2
microcode : 0xffffffff
cpu MHz : 2394.462
cache size : 30720 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 8
core id : 1
cpu cores : 8
apicid : 1
initial apicid : 1
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 15
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nopl xtopology eagerfpu pni pclmulqdq ssse3 fma cx16 sse4_1 sse4_2 movbe popcnt aes xsave avx f16c rdrand hypervisor lahf_lm abm fsgsbase bmi1 avx2 smep bmi2 erms xsaveopt
bogomips : 4788.92
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 44 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management:
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You can see the cpu cache
Querying this output:
- processor and core id
egrep 'processor|core id' /proc/cpuinfo
The number of processor ? (Core)
To display the number of existing CPUs, enter the following command:
grep processor /proc/cpuinfo | wc -l
or
grep -c ^processor /proc/cpuinfo
With:
The architecture
You can determine the architecture and the word size with the uname command
uname -p
x86_64
i686
where: where x86_64
If the command return unknown:
uname -a
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