[ale] Procinfo

[Geoffrey Myers]

Damon L. Chesser 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.

Well, I AM the admin. :)  Running 64 bit Centos on my Mac under virtual 
box.  I have 4 gig of ram, and 2 gig dedicated to the VM, so it's pretty 
spunky.  And, I do see the 'lm' in my /proc/cpuinfo flags line.

> 
>>
>> 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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Until later, Geoffrey

"I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent
the government from wasting the labors of the people under
the pretense of taking care of them."
- Thomas Jefferson