On 2017-07-04, Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> wrote: >> >> Several. To see your cpu, type lscpu. Architecture is first in output. > > That's not correct, or at least not useful. The architecture is what > uname(2) reports, and if the system is currently running a 32-bit > kernel, it will be "i686" no matter if the processor is 64-bit capable. > > The information about the latter is in the "Flags:" field of the lscpu > output. If it contains the "lm" (for "long mode[1]") flag, you have an > x86_64 processor. >
Why don't I have a 'Flags:' field? curty@einstein:~$ lscpu Architecture: x86_64 CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit Byte Order: Little Endian CPU(s): 2 On-line CPU(s) list: 0,1 Thread(s) per core: 1 Core(s) per socket: 2 Socket(s): 1 NUMA node(s): 1 Vendor ID: AuthenticAMD CPU family: 20 Model: 2 Stepping: 0 CPU MHz: 1300.000 BogoMIPS: 2594.41 Virtualization: AMD-V L1d cache: 32K L1i cache: 32K L2 cache: 512K NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0,1 > > 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_mode > > -- “Yeah yeah.” --Sidney Morgenbesser's retort to a speaker who said that although there are many cases in which two negatives make a positive, he knew of no case in which two positives made a negative.
