Red Hat

Actually, from a vm guest, this can be quite difficult. I mean, in most cases for most all hypervisor, any and all CPUs are virtual. The actually allocation given to a VM is often times only known to the hypervisor host itself and not to the guest.

On a physical box, it all depends.

If you have contemporary CPUs, and you have a relatively contemporary Linux, /proc/cpuinfo will likely show what you want. However, if you have older CPUs and/or older Linux, the information could be very inaccurate.

In your case, and this is a guess, looks like you've been assigned one virtual CPU.... what that means though, isn't well defined.

This is a system with 1 physical CPU, quad-core:

Code:

% grep '^processor' /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
processor       : 1
processor       : 2
processor       : 3
% awk '/^physical id/ && s[$NF]++==0' /proc/cpuinfo
physical id     : 0
% awk -F: '/^physical id/ {ph=$NF} /^core id/ && a[ph,$NF]++==0' /proc/cpuinfo
core id         : 0
core id         : 1
core id         : 2
core id         : 3