Why /proc/cpuinfo output does not show correct available number of cpu cores in RHEL5?
Issue
/proc/cpuinfo
not showing number of cores.- vm is hosted on vmware ESXi.
# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 15
model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5667 @ 3.07GHz
stepping : 1
cpu MHz : 3059.000
cache size : 12288 KB
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 11
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 syscall nx lm constant_tsc ida n onstop_tsc arat pni ssse3 cx16 lahf_lm
bogomips : 6118.00
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: [8]
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Vmware ESXi.
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