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Subject: RE: system call for finding the number of cpus??
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 17:54:58 -0400
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From: "Kuppuswamy, Priyadarshini" <Priyadarshini.Kuppuswamy@compaq.com>
To: "Davide Libenzi" <davidel@xmailserver.org>
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I don't think that (sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF)) command works on linux. It works on Unix. I tried that. It returns 1 when there are 4 processors on linux.


-----Original Message-----
From: Davide Libenzi [mailto:davidel@xmailserver.org]
Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 5:57 PM
To: Kuppuswamy, Priyadarshini
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Subject: Re: system call for finding the number of cpus??


On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Kuppuswamy, Priyadarshini wrote:

> Hi!
>   I have a script that is using the /cpu/procinfo file to determine the
> number of cpus present in the system. But I would like to implement it
> using a system call rather than use the environment variables?? I
> couldn't find a system call for linux that would give me the result.
> Could anyone please let me know if there is one for redhat linux??

sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF);




- Davide


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