[ale] Procinfo

[Scott McBrien]

On Feb 14, 2011, at 1:46 PM, "Damon L. Chesser" <damon at damtek.com> wrote:

> 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?
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
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>>>> 
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