RFC about socket/cores numbers and HT info

[John Aldrich]

On Thursday 28 January 2010, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
> On Thu Jan 28 11:30:31 UTC 2010 John Aldrich wrote:
> > /dev/mem: Permission denied
> 
> I thought that if run by root, it should not give this permission
> denied problem.... strange
> 
> I didn't mention in general that on RH EL based systems, the dmidecode
> rpm is needed and that the binary is in /usr/sbin (I didn't put the
> full path inside the script..)
> 
> What output do you receive with the command:
> dmidecode -t processor?
> 
> > One note: it didn't hit me immediately, but I needed to run dos2unix
> > on it to strip the EOL characters and make it run-able on my linux
> > box.
> 
> I needed to upload from a win PC and it automatically converted, I
>  suppose ;-(
> 
> Thanks fro noting this
> 
Here's the output of the command run using sudo:
                 
# dmidecode 2.10                            
SMBIOS 2.5 present.                         

Handle 0x0004, DMI type 4, 40 bytes
Processor Information              
        Socket Designation: AM2    
        Type: Central Processor    
        Family: Athlon 64 X2       
        Manufacturer: AMD              
        ID: B2 0F 06 00 FF FB 8B 17    
        Signature: Family 15, Model 107, Stepping 2
        Flags:                                     
                FPU (Floating-point unit on-chip)  
                VME (Virtual mode extension)       
                DE (Debugging extension)           
                PSE (Page size extension)          
                TSC (Time stamp counter)           
                MSR (Model specific registers)     
                PAE (Physical address extension)   
                MCE (Machine check exception)      
                CX8 (CMPXCHG8 instruction supported)
                APIC (On-chip APIC hardware supported)
                SEP (Fast system call)                
                MTRR (Memory type range registers)    
                PGE (Page global enable)              
                MCA (Machine check architecture)      
                CMOV (Conditional move instruction supported)
                PAT (Page attribute table)                   
                PSE-36 (36-bit page size extension)
                CLFSH (CLFLUSH instruction supported)
                MMX (MMX technology supported)
                FXSR (Fast floating-point save and restore)
                SSE (Streaming SIMD extensions)
                SSE2 (Streaming SIMD extensions 2)
                HTT (Hyper-threading technology)
        Version: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+
        Voltage: 1.5 V
        External Clock: 200 MHz
        Max Speed: 3100 MHz
        Current Speed: 3100 MHz
        Status: Populated, Enabled
        Upgrade: Other
        L1 Cache Handle: 0x0005
        L2 Cache Handle: 0x0006
        L3 Cache Handle: 0x0007
        Serial Number: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
        Asset Tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
        Part Number: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
        Core Count: 2
        Core Enabled: 2
        Characteristics:
                64-bit capable