From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 16 11:25:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from builder.freebsd.org (builder.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 045A737B555 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 11:25:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdc@fiawol.org) Received: from jdcochran.fiawol.org (jdcochran.fiawol.org [209.122.117.89]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D16B132D9 for ; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 11:24:50 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jdc@localhost) by jdcochran.fiawol.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA95142 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 14:25:22 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jdc) From: John Cochran Message-Id: <200002161925.OAA95142@jdcochran.fiawol.org> Subject: Re: About the setting of cpu type To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 14:25:21 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chris Wasser wrote: > Actually, I've been running into a slight problem with this too, >Linux allows on to look at /proc/cpuinfo while the best information >I seem to be able to get from FreeBSD is from dmesg. If it's a SMP box, >you'll see the processor make but not speed. There has to be a userland >process to view processor information, searching through dmesg won't >always work (rollovers, etc) Take a look at /var/run/dmesg.boot, It is created at boot time and contains the contents of dmesg. I agree that FreeBSD doesn't show processor speed at boot time for SMP machines. > Unless there already is a userland tool to get all the CPU info for >your BSD boxen? I found I needed this ability because I was conducting >FPU tests on multiple platforms and ran into a problem documenting a >SMP FreeBSD submission. > >- -Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message