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proc_cpuinfo

Section: File Formats (5)
Updated: 202-0-08
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NAME

/proc/cpuinfo - CPU and system architecture information  

DESCRIPTION

/proc/cpuinfo
This is a collection of CPU and system architecture dependent items, for each supported architecture a different list. Two common entries are processor which gives CPU number and bogomips; a system constant that is calculated during kernel initialization. SMP machines have information for each CPU. The lscpu(1) command gathers its information from this file.
 

SEE ALSO

proc(5)


 

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