I wanted to find out how many cores my system has, so I searched the same question in Google. I got some commands such as the lscpu
command.
When I tried this command, it gave me the following result:
$ lscpu
Architecture: x86_64
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 4
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-3
Thread(s) per core: 1
Core(s) per socket: 4
Socket(s): 1
NUMA node(s): 1
Vendor ID: GenuineIntel
CPU family: 6
Model: 23
Stepping: 10
CPU MHz: 1998.000
BogoMIPS: 5302.48
Virtualization: VT-x
L1d cache: 32K
L1i cache: 32K
L2 cache: 2048K
NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-3
In particular, this output shows:
- CPU(s): 4
- Core(s) per socket: 4
- CPU family: 6
Which of those indicates cores of a Linux system?
Is there any other command to tell the number of cores, or am I assuming it is completely wrong?
Best Answer
You have to look at sockets and cores per socket. In this case you have 1 physical CPU (socket) which has 4 cores (cores per socket).