Know more about your CPU in Linux

There are two ways to gather information about CPU in Linux.

1.  You can check file /proc/cpuinfo to CPU information as below. You may see following output which contains most vital information about CPU.

# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 58
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU G2010 @ 2.80GHz
stepping : 9
microcode : 0x19
cpu MHz : 2793.668
. . .

2. Alternatively, you can use lscpu command to get similar information. Before that you need to install following package.

# yum install util-linux -y
# lscpu
Architecture: x86_64
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 1
On-line CPU(s) list: 0
Thread(s) per core: 1
Core(s) per socket: 1
Socket(s): 1
NUMA node(s): 1
Vendor ID: GenuineIntel
CPU family: 6
Model: 58
Model name: Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU G2010 @ 2.80GHz 
. . .