Linux checking cpu cores

How to know number of cores of a system in Linux?

I wanted to find out how many cores my system has, so I searched the same question in Google. I got some commands such as the lscpu command. When I tried this command, it gave me the following result:

$ lscpu Architecture: x86_64 CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit Byte Order: Little Endian CPU(s): 4 On-line CPU(s) list: 0-3 Thread(s) per core: 1 Core(s) per socket: 4 Socket(s): 1 NUMA node(s): 1 Vendor ID: GenuineIntel CPU family: 6 Model: 23 Stepping: 10 CPU MHz: 1998.000 BogoMIPS: 5302.48 Virtualization: VT-x L1d cache: 32K L1i cache: 32K L2 cache: 2048K NUMA node0 CPU(s): 0-3 

Which of those indicates cores of a Linux system?

Is there any other command to tell the number of cores, or am I assuming it is completely wrong?

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@สมหวังแนวหน้า kind of a nitpick, but the the grep arg should be processor , not precessor , correct? . Thanks for the help!

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To get a complete picture you need to look at the number of threads per core, cores per socket and sockets. If you multiply these numbers you will get the number of CPUs on your system.

CPUs = Threads per core X cores per socket X sockets

CPUs are what you see when you run htop (these do not equate to physical CPUs).

Here is an example from a desktop machine:

$ lscpu | grep -E '^Thread|^Core|^Socket|^CPU\(' CPU(s): 8 Thread(s) per core: 2 Core(s) per socket: 4 Socket(s): 1 

$ lscpu | grep -E '^Thread|^Core|^Socket|^CPU\(' CPU(s): 32 Thread(s) per core: 2 Core(s) per socket: 8 Socket(s): 2 

The output of nproc corresponds to the CPU count from lscpu . For the desktop machine above this should match the 8 CPU(s) reported by lscpu :

The output of /proc/cpuinfo should match this information, for example on the desktop system above we can see there are 8 processors (CPUs) and 4 cores (core id 0-3):

$ grep -E 'processor|core id' /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 core id : 0 processor : 1 core id : 0 processor : 2 core id : 1 processor : 3 core id : 1 processor : 4 core id : 2 processor : 5 core id : 2 processor : 6 core id : 3 processor : 7 core id : 3 

The cpu cores reported by /proc/cpuinfo corresponds to the Core(s) per socket reported by lscpu . For the desktop machine above this should match the 4 Core(s) per socket reported by lscpu:

$ grep -m 1 'cpu cores' /proc/cpuinfo cpu cores : 4 

To specifically answer your question you tell how many cores you have by multiplying the number of cores you have per socket by the number of sockets you have.

Cores = Cores per socket X Sockets

For the example systems above the desktop has 4 cores:

$ echo "Cores = $(( $(lscpu | awk '/^Socket\(s\)/< print $2 >') * $(lscpu | awk '/^Core\(s\) per socket/< print $4 >') ))" Cores = 4 

$ echo "Cores = $(( $(lscpu | awk '/^Socket\(s\)/< print $2 >') * $(lscpu | awk '/^Core\(s\) per socket/< print $4 >') ))" Cores = 16 

Another useful utility is dmidecode which outputs per socket information. In the case of the server system listed above we expect to see 8 cores per socket and 16 threads per socket:

$ sudo dmidecode -t 4 | grep -E 'Socket Designation|Count' Socket Designation: CPU1 Core Count: 8 Thread Count: 16 Socket Designation: CPU2 Core Count: 8 Thread Count: 16 

The lscpu command has a number of useful options that you may like to check out, for example:

$ lscpu --all --extended $ lscpu --all --parse=CPU,SOCKET,CORE | grep -v '^#' 

See man lscpu for details.

• You need to be aware of sockets, cores and threads
• You need to be careful of the term CPU as it means different things in different contexts

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4 Ways to Find CPU Cores In Linux

CPU Core or we call them CPU Processors are the ones who run machine code. Multiple cores in the system are responsible for the execution of multiple program instructions at a time. Some of the systems contain dual-core, some quad-core (4 cores), and even the latest generation have 18 cores. While working with the system you must have information regarding the number of cores. Let’s find out how to check the number of cores on Linux system:

How To Find CPU Cores in Linux

Linux systems provide several ways to get a detailed picture of a CPU with its cores. This article will cover four top most and easiest ways to get it.

1: Find CPU Cores in Linux Using lscpu Command

The lscpu command is one of the easiest commands in the Linux system to fetch complete details of CPU architecture.

What we need to do is just simply type “lscpu” in the terminal:

2: Find CPU Cores in Linux Through /proc/cpuinfo File

When we run “lscpu” command, it fetches information from sysfs and /proc/cpuinfo. So, it is good to get directly all details by running this command on terminal:

3: Find CPU Cores in Linux Using top/htop Command

The top command is used to report processor activities in Linux systems. It displays all the kernel tasks, running Linux processes yet all the system resources. The htop command is one of the iterations of the top command.

Type “top” in the command-line to get complete picture of system:

After running the above command, press 1:

You can also use the “htop” command but it is not pre-installed in Linux Mint 21 system. For this, first install it through the mentioned command:

Now, run the below-mentioned command to find CPU core in Linux system:

4: Find CPU Cores in Linux Using nproc Command

To display the available processing units in a Linux system, the “nproc” command is used. We can also check all the installed processors on the system using the “nproc all” command. Let’s check how we can find it, run in terminal:

Conclusion

Cores are processors that help any system to work on multiple tasks and enhance the performance. System processors can be dual-core, quad-core (4 cores), and even the latest generation can have 18 cores. We have checked how we can find the number of cores using lscpu, top/htop and nproc commands in the Linux system.

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How to find the number of CPU cores including virtual?

How do I find out the number of cores my CPU has, including virtual cores (hyper threading cores) using the command line?

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cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep processor | wc -l 

To check the number of cores !

cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep 'core id' core id : 0 core id : 1 

Or lscpu will show you all output:

lscpu Architecture: i686 CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit Byte Order: Little Endian CPU(s): 2 On-line CPU(s) list: 0,1 Thread(s) per core: 1 Core(s) per socket: 2 Socket(s): 1 Vendor ID: GenuineIntel CPU family: 15 Model: 4 Stepping: 7 CPU MHz: 2792.992 BogoMIPS: 5585.98 L1d cache: 16K L2 cache: 1024K 

nproc is also useful in scripts depending on the number of cores available to it. E.g. make -j$(nproc) .

To add to the existing answers, you can determine information about Intel’s HyperThreading by looking at the «siblings» line in /proc/cpuinfo. The example below is from a 2 socket machine. It shows the CPU has 6 cores but 12 «siblings». On Intel CPUs this means HyperThreading is enabled and there are 6 physical cores.

processor : 23 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 62 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2430 v2 @ 2.50GHz stepping : 4 microcode : 0x428 cpu MHz : 1599.707 cache size : 15360 KB physical id : 1 siblings : 12 core id : 5 cpu cores : 6 apicid : 43 initial apicid : 43 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 13 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good nopl xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf eagerfpu pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm pcid dca sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt tsc_deadline_timer aes xsave avx f16c rdrand lahf_lm ida arat xsaveopt pln pts dtherm tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid fsgsbase smep erms bogomips : 5005.20 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 46 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: 

dmidecode is also useful for determining what hardware a Linux system is running on.

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