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Old 01-19-2012
writing a simple script to get total number of cpus/cores in server

Hi,

I am very new to scripting and I wanted to write a unix shell script which can give me,

1)number of cpu's in a box

2)number of cores per cpu

3)total number of cores in abox (ie multiplying 1&2)

I am also trying to figure out how to check if hyper-threading is enabled in the server and also this check to script.

intially I am looking this to run on linux then wanted to implement it on other flavours of unix.

below is my script..
Code:
#!/bin/sh
if [ ! -r /proc/cpuinfo ]; then
  echo "Is this Linux? Cannot find or read /proc/cpuinfo"
  exit 1
fi
echo num_cpus = `grep 'physical id' /proc/cpuinfo | sort -u | wc -l`
read num_cpu
echo num_cores_per_cpu=`grep 'core id' /proc/cpuinfo | sort -u | wc -l`
read num_cores_per_cpu
echo total_cores=`expr $num_cpus \\* num_cores_per_cpu` --this part is not working..

if [ $num_cores -eq 0 ]; then
# this box is either an old SMP or single-CPU box, so count the # of processors

  echo num_cores=`grep '^processor' /proc/cpuinfo | sort -u | wc -l`

fi
#echo $num_cores_per_cpu

any help is much appreciated.

thanks,
Steve.

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# 2  
Old 01-19-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by steven12
Hi,

I am very new to scripting and I wanted to write a unix shell script which can give me,

1)number of cpu's in a box

2)number of cores per cpu

3)total number of cores in abox (ie multiplying 1&2)

I am also trying to figure out how to check if hyper-threading is enabled in the server and also this check to script.

intially I am looking this to run on linux then wanted to implement it on other flavours of unix.
Each unix flavor will require its own section within the script...not to mention different versions of the same unix flavor may use different commands to get the information that you are looking for...and /proc/cpuinfo is found only on linux. You need to learn some shell scripting before trying to write this sort of thing...

echo num_cpus = `grep 'physical id' /proc/cpuinfo | sort -u | wc -l`
read num_cpu

should really be...
Code:
num_cpus=`grep 'physical id' /proc/cpuinfo | sort -u | wc -l`
echo $num_cpus

# 3  
Old 01-19-2012
Hi,

Thanks for your reply.

yeah, I know that different unix flavors requires different commands but I want to start with linux.

what I am trying to do is display number of cpu and cores for each cpu and multiplying both to get total number of cores in the server.

when i change it to echo $num_cpus then where should i use the read command.

thanks,
steve.
# 4  
Old 01-19-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by steven12
what I am trying to do is display number of cpu and cores for each cpu and multiplying both to get total number of cores in the server.
Why bother? Each core shows up individually whether it's in a separate processor or not, just count them.
Code:
awk '/^processor/ { N++} END { print N }' /proc/cpuinfo

Besides, how do you know each CPU has the same number of cores?

To extract both:

Code:
awk -F: '/^physical/ && !ID[$2] { P++; ID[$2]=1 }; /^physical/ { N++ };  END { print N, P }' /proc/cpuinfo

# 5  
Old 01-19-2012
Thanks corona,

then how do we know if Hyperthreading is enabled or not and how doo we check that?

Thanks,
Steve.
# 6  
Old 01-19-2012
I don't have a linux computer with hyperthreading to check right now, but that also shows up in /proc/cpuinfo.
# 7  
Old 01-20-2012
Hi Corona,
Code:
 
awk -F: '/^physical/ && !ID[$2] { P++; ID[$2]=1 }; /^physical/ { N++ };  END { print N, P }' /proc/cpuinfo

thanks for the above script. It shows the right information but how can we add comments to it so that we can understand what it is displaying?

eg output of above script.

16 4 -->script displays as this but how we add comments to this such that it will show

total cores =16 and cpus =4

thanks,
steve.

Last edited by vbe; 01-20-2012 at 01:34 PM..
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