Nicholas Bastin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 10/4/07, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Is there a way to find the number of processors on a machine (on linux/
> > windows/macos/cygwin) using python code (using the same code/cross
> > platform code)?
>
> There's no single call that will give you the same info on every
> platform, but you can obviously write this yourself and switch based
> on os.uname()[0] in most cases.
>
> For Darwin, you can just use the subprocess module to call 'sysctl
> hw.logicalcpu'. I'm not sure if there's a more direct way in python
> to use sysctl. (hw.logicalcpu_max is what the hardware maximally
> supports, but someone may have started their machine with OF blocking
> some of the processors and you should probably respect that decision)
>
> For Linux you can read /proc/cpuinfo and parse that information. Be
> somewhat careful with this, however, if your processors support HT,
> they will show as 2, and that may or may not be what you want. You
> can deterministically parse this information out if you know which
> processor families are truly multi-core, and which are HT.
On any unix/posix system (OSX and linux should both qualify) you can use
>>> import os
>>> os.sysconf('SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN')
2
>>>
(From my Core 2 Duo laptop running linux)
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