On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Harry Henry Gebel wrote: -|On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 02:01:05PM -0500, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: -|> Does anyone know how to get the number of CPU's -|> that a machine has using the "C" programming -|> language? Any URL's on the subject? -| -|There's probably can easier way using system calls, but I quick and sloppy -|way would be to read /proc/cpuinfo or /proc/stat . Here are the contents -|from one machine I administer: -| -|[EMAIL PROTECTED] hgebel]# cat /proc/cpuinfo -|processor : 0 -|vendor_id : GenuineIntel -|cpu family : 6 -|model : 7 -|model name : Pentium III (Katmai) -|stepping : 3 -|cpu MHz : 498.759223 -|cache size : 512 KB
<SNIP> Nope. We have to use some "C" or "C++" system/function call. Our programmers don't want to depend on the /proc file system being available. Thanks... Any other takers on this one? --- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian 2.2 GNU/Linux
