proc_cpuinfo - CPU and system architecture information

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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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