Section 5 · File formats
proc_cpuinfo.5
Package: man-pages
proc_cpuinfo
NAME
/proc/cpuinfo − CPU and system architecture information
DESCRIPTION
/proc/cpuinfo
This is a collection of CPU and system architecture dependent items, for each supported architecture a different list. Two common entries are processor which gives CPU number and bogomips; a system constant that is calculated during kernel initialization. SMP machines have information for each CPU. The lscpu(1) command gathers its information from this file.
SEE ALSO
proc(5)