[lug] request for data: cpuinfo on non-x86 cpus

Michael J. Hammel mjhammel at graphics-muse.org
Wed Jul 30 11:29:29 MDT 2008


On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 21:58 -0600, Steve Sullivan wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:15:18AM -0600, Michael J. Hammel wrote:
> > > $ getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN
> 
> Where is this documented?  Yes, I've looked at the
> man pages for getconf, sysconf, confstr, and done the google
> dance.  But _NPROCESSORS_ONLN seems to be a secret.  What
> other secret variables exist?  Can you point to some docs?

No, but I did find that getconf -a printed out a slew of secret
variables.  What they heck they mean, I dunno.  I didn't even know about
getconf till this thread got going.
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Michael J. Hammel                                    Principal Software Engineer
mjhammel at graphics-muse.org                           http://graphics-muse.org
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