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Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 16:37:48 +0100 (BST)
From: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>
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To: "Kuppuswamy, Priyadarshini" <Priyadarshini.Kuppuswamy@compaq.com>
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Subject: Re: system call for finding the number of cpus??
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Hello Priya,

The portable way to determine the number of cpus _online_ is:

if [ -x /usr/bin/getconf ] ; then
  numprocs=$(/usr/bin/getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
  if [ $numprocs -eq 0 ]; then
    numprocs=1
  fi
else
  numprocs=1
fi

at least that is the number I usually pass to "make -j$numprocs" when
compiling large software projects.

Regards,
Tigran

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??
>
> Thanks for your time,
> Priya
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