#cpuinfo

How to check whether a Raspberry Pi is 32 bit or 64 bit ?

The latest version of Raspberry Pi comes with 64 bit CPU, but prior to that it was with 32 bit CPU. Some softwares and applications are dependent on CPU and OS architecture.

There are various options to check the architecture.

Method 1:

type the following command and check the response

uname -m

You will get a response something like armv7l or armv8.

ARMv7 and below are 32-bit. AMRv8 introduces…

Solution: Output of /proc/cpuinfo, 2 entries for each core? #answer #computers #programming

Output of /proc/cpuinfo, 2 entries for each core?

Please help me understand the output of /proc/cpuinfo. My new server has dual quad cores. /proc/cpuinfo has two entries for each core (a total of 16 entries):

processor : 9 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 26 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5570 @ 2.9 stepping : 5 cpu MHz : 1596.000 cache size : 8192 KB physical id : 0 siblings…