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Oracle Linux: How to Detect a Hyper-Threading or/and a Multi-Core CPU on Oracle Linux (Doc ID 462410.1)

Last updated on MARCH 18, 2024

Applies to:

Linux OS - Version Enterprise Linux 4.0 and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Version N/A and later
Linux x86-64
Linux x86

Purpose

How to determine if the system is using Hyper-Threading and/or Multi-Core CPU.

Scope

Linux system administrators and Linux DBAs with sysadmin skills.

Details

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In this Document
Purpose
Scope
Details
 Hyper-Threading Technology (HT)
 Multi-Core CPU
 Detecting Hardware Multi-threading and Multi-core topology in 2.6 Linux
 Information exported by ‘proc’ file system
 Informations exported by ‘sysfs’ file system 

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