number of physical sockets and cpu cores
a small script to check out the number of processors in your linux machine #!/bin/bash S=$(grep "physical id" /proc/cpuinfo | sort -u | wc -l) C=$(grep "cpu cores" /proc/cpuinfo |sort -u |cut -d":" -f2) grep -i "model name" /proc/cpuinfo echo your system has $S sockets with $C CPU cores each mandatory sample output: model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5640 @ 2.27GHz your system has 2 sockets with 6 CPU cores each