How to find the number of physical CPUs in Linux
1. How many physical CPUs does the server have?
2. How many cores on each CPU? Duo/Quad
In Linux it’s actually quite easy to get this info.
You could go through the /var/log/dmesg file or the /proc/cpuinfo file. We’ll look at the /proc/cpuinfo file.
Output of cat /proc/cpuinfo:
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 26
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5570 @ 2.93GHz
stepping : 5
cpu MHz : 2933.548
cache size : 8192 KB
physical id : 1
siblings : 8
core id : 0
cpu cores : 4
apicid : 16
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 11
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc nonstop_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm
bogomips : 5867.09
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: [8]
processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 26
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5570 @ 2.93GHz
stepping : 5
cpu MHz : 2933.548
cache size : 8192 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 8
core id : 0
cpu cores : 4
apicid : 0
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 11
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc nonstop_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm
bogomips : 5866.85
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: [8]
1. To get Physical CPU count?
Run “cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep “physical id” | sort | uniq | wc -l”.
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "physical id" | sort | uniq|wc -l
Output : 2
The machine has two Physical CPU.
2. How many cores?
Run “cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep “cpu cores” | uniq”.
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "cpu cores" | uniq
Output: cpu cores : 4
The machine has four Cores
4 mean that each physical CPU has 4 cores on it. If cpu cores was 1 then the CPU’s single core.
How many virtual processors?
Run “cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep “^processor”"
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "^processor"
processor : 0
processor : 1
processor : 2
processor : 3
processor : 4
processor : 5
processor : 6
processor : 7
processor : 8
processor : 9
processor : 10
processor : 11
processor : 12
processor : 13
processor : 14
processor : 15
We have 2 physical CPUs x 4 cores each = 8 virtual processors. So there should be 8 Virtual Processors. But here the Output is 16. Why is it showing 16.
The processor number is showing 16, due to HT (Hyper-Threading) enablement.
However, it’s a bit different for HT (Hyper-Threading). If you get cpu core = 1 but the virtual processors = 2 then the CPU’s running HT. HT will only work with the SMP kernel.
2. How many cores on each CPU? Duo/Quad
In Linux it’s actually quite easy to get this info.
You could go through the /var/log/dmesg file or the /proc/cpuinfo file. We’ll look at the /proc/cpuinfo file.
Output of cat /proc/cpuinfo:
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 26
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5570 @ 2.93GHz
stepping : 5
cpu MHz : 2933.548
cache size : 8192 KB
physical id : 1
siblings : 8
core id : 0
cpu cores : 4
apicid : 16
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 11
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc nonstop_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm
bogomips : 5867.09
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: [8]
processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 26
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5570 @ 2.93GHz
stepping : 5
cpu MHz : 2933.548
cache size : 8192 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 8
core id : 0
cpu cores : 4
apicid : 0
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 11
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc nonstop_tsc pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm
bogomips : 5866.85
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: [8]
1. To get Physical CPU count?
Run “cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep “physical id” | sort | uniq | wc -l”.
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "physical id" | sort | uniq|wc -l
Output : 2
The machine has two Physical CPU.
2. How many cores?
Run “cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep “cpu cores” | uniq”.
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "cpu cores" | uniq
Output: cpu cores : 4
The machine has four Cores
4 mean that each physical CPU has 4 cores on it. If cpu cores was 1 then the CPU’s single core.
How many virtual processors?
Run “cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep “^processor”"
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "^processor"
processor : 0
processor : 1
processor : 2
processor : 3
processor : 4
processor : 5
processor : 6
processor : 7
processor : 8
processor : 9
processor : 10
processor : 11
processor : 12
processor : 13
processor : 14
processor : 15
We have 2 physical CPUs x 4 cores each = 8 virtual processors. So there should be 8 Virtual Processors. But here the Output is 16. Why is it showing 16.
The processor number is showing 16, due to HT (Hyper-Threading) enablement.
However, it’s a bit different for HT (Hyper-Threading). If you get cpu core = 1 but the virtual processors = 2 then the CPU’s running HT. HT will only work with the SMP kernel.
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