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If you’ve just bought a new desktop,laptop or server and the box says the box is powered by 2 processors, you can actually verify that.

Here’s how to display the number of processor of your linux box.

Simply issue the following command as root

# cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep processor

Everything in linux is files. This command simply retrieves the number of processors that linux detected from /proc/cpuinfo and displays it. Usually, the processor number comes at the first set of line from issuing the command.

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