[ale] Procinfo

[Damon L. Chesser]

On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 10:13 -0500, Tim Watts wrote: 
> I also get a different set of flags between a virtual cpu and the
> physical one. Is there someplace where all those flags are documented?

You might well, the "virtual cpu" *is* different from the actual cpu.
And just because you have a x64 phys. proc, does not mean you have a x64
virt. proc.  It would all depend on how the admin set up the virtual
environment as well as the software used to virtualize.  Many people
think you should only use x32 for virt. guest (proxmox recommends this,
for example) because x32 is less demanding on memory resources for the
same applications when compared to x64.

> 
> 
> On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 10:03 -0500, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > If lm is present it's a 64 bit capable system. if not it's 32.
> > 
> > unless a virtual machine is weird.
> > 
> > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 10:01 AM, Geoffrey Myers
> > <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
> > > Jim Kinney wrote:
> > >> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Geoffrey Myers
> > >> <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>> uname -a will work.
> > >>> Is this not just showing you what your kernel is?  I can run a 32 bit
> > >>> kernel on a 64 bit machine.
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >> yep. The solution was /proc/cpuinfo | grep flags | grep " lm ". D.
> > >> Chesser  had the best solution.
> > >
> > > Hmmm, I don't see it.  Maybe because I'm on a virtual?
> > >
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Until later, Geoffrey
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