Command to find information about CPUs on a UNIX machine

Question

Do you know if there is a UNIX command that will tell me what the CPU configuration for my Sun OS UNIX machine is? I am also trying to determine the memory configuration. Is the

Answer 1

My favorite is to look at the boot messages. If it's been recently booted try running /etc/dmesg. Otherwise find the boot messages, logged in /var/adm or some place in /var.

Answer 2

The nproc command shows the number of processing units available:
$ nproc

Sample outputs: 4

lscpu gathers CPU architecture information form /proc/cpuinfon in human-read-able format:
$ lscpu

Sample outputs:

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: 4
CPU socket(s): 2
NUMA node(s): 1
Vendor ID: GenuineIntel
CPU family: 6
Model: 15
Stepping: 7
CPU MHz: 1866.669
BogoMIPS: 3732.83
Virtualization: VT-x
L1d cache: 32K
L1i cache: 32K
L2 cache: 4096K
NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-7

Answer 3

Firstly, it probably depends which version of Solaris you're running, but also what hardware you have.

On SPARC at least, you have psrinfo to show you processor information, which run on its own will show you the number of CPUs the machine sees. psrinfo -p shows you the number of physical processors installed. From that you can deduce the number of threads/cores per physical processors.

prtdiag will display a fair bit of info about the hardware in your machine. It looks like on a V240 you do get memory channel info from prtdiag, but you don't on a T2000. I guess that's an architecture issue between UltraSPARC IIIi and UltraSPARC T1.

Answer 4

Try psrinfo to find the processor type and the number of physical processors installed on the system.

Answer 5

I think you can use prtdiag or prtconf on many UNIXs

Answer 6

There is no standard Unix command, AFAIK. I haven't used Sun OS, but on Linux, you can use this:

cat /proc/cpuinfo

Sorry that it is Linux, not Sun OS. There is probably something similar though for Sun OS.