On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 14:34 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > what is the fedora-approved way to identify the wordsize of both > your running kernel and your CPU? for the kernel, i'm used to running > > $ uname -r > > and just looking at the suffix, which in my case would be either > "i686" or "x86_64". is there a simpler way? does one of the "uname" > options reliably report just that portion -- the wordsize of the > running kernel? > > and, secondly, regardless of the bitness of the kernel, what about > identifying the wordsize of the actual CPU (since you can obviously > have a 32-bit kernel running on an x86_64 CPU). > > my standard tricks are one of: > > $ grep lm /proc/cpuinfo (where "lm" stands for long mode) > $ getconf LONG_BIT (should print 32 or 64) > > in that second case, would "uname -p" reliably show a 64-bit CPU, even > with a 32-bit OS? > > thanks. > > rday > -- > Try this script, I think I got this from one of the guys on the Centos list. Greg Ennis #!/bin/bash echo -n "Running " RES=`uname -a | grep 64` if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then echo -n "64-bit " else echo -n "32-bit " fi echo -n "operating system on a " RES=`cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep " lm "` if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then echo -n "64-bit " else echo -n "32-bit " fi echo "machine" -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
