Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > b) Do you think there is any way to enumerate the number of physical > sockets of a system based only on values in cpuinfo and not using > dmidecode command? Gianluca, There is a Red Hat Knowledgebase article titled "How do I determine if my x86-compatible Intel system is multi-processor, multi-core or supports hyperthreading?" that I think you will find useful. It states: To determine whether a system is multi-processor, multi-core, has hyperthreading or supports a combination of the three, look at the physical id, siblings, core id and cpu cores values in /proc/cpuinfo on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 or on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 while running a non-Xen kernel. It provides several examples that you could use to write and test your script. Here's the link: http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-7715 Regards, Matthew Roth InterMedia Marketing Solutions Software Engineer and Systems Developer -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines