how to get processor Id in UNIX - UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

rajashekaran · #1 12-11-2001

Hello readers
how to get the processor id in UNIX environment?
how to get the network card Id in UNIX ?

Perderabo · #2 12-11-2001

I'm not sure what you mean exactly. But whatever it is that you mean, the answer is almost certainly going to vary from system to system.

First, processor id. Do you mean what kind of processor? There is the uname command which is mandated by standards to be everywhere. And "uname -m" is going to give so kind of useful information everywhere (I would be interested to hear of any exceptions). On HP-UX, I get "9000/859" as one example. But with SunOS, I get "sun4u", which sun calls the "platform". Sun has a utility /usr/platform/`uname -m`/sbin/prtdiag that can give more info. HP has a "model" command that can also give more info.

Now for network card id. Do you mean the mac address? On sun it's "ifconfig -a" and on HP it's "lanscan". If you mean the tcp/ip address, then on both systems it's "netstat -in".

auswipe · #3 12-11-2001

Try `dmesg | grep -i "cpu"`

On my OpenBSD 2.9 x86 system I get:

Code:

/home/someUser $ dmesg | grep -i "cpu"
cpu0: Intel Pentium II ("GenuineIntel" 686-class, 512KB L2 cache) 401 MHz
cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SYS,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR

On a BSDI 2.1 x86 machine I get:

Code:

$ dmesg | grep -i "cpu"
cpu = Pentium II 167 HydraSTARS (model 5, ID 650, features 183f9ff, delay 8252)

That oughta give you some of the information that you are looking for.

Neo · #4 12-11-2001

On linux systems with proc filesystem:

Quote:

linux# cat cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 5
model : 8
model name : AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor
stepping : 12
cpu MHz : 501.150
cache size : 64 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
sep_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mmx 3dnow
bogomips : 999.42

Hope this is useful.....

Prafulla · #5 12-12-2001

Hi..

you can get processor information in solaris environment

from /usr/platform/<platform name>/sbin/prtdiag command

where platform name is the `uname -m` output that is sun4u in my server.
in HPUX try TOP command

thanks
Praful

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