proc_cpuinfo(5) File Formats Manual proc_cpuinfo(5)
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 bo-
gomips; a system constant that is calculated during kernel ini-
tialization. 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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