Cpuinfo

cpuinfo is a handle in the proc filesystem, informing you about the CPU type and features in your system.

Example: kolossus:~ # cat /proc/cpuinfo processor      : 0 vendor_id      : GenuineIntel cpu family     : 15 model          : 3 model name     : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz stepping       : 3 cpu MHz        : 2992.966 cache size     : 1024 KB Hint: For the future, please learn to use hwinfo --cpu instead of cat /proc/cpuinfo. The /proc folder is about to be transitioned to the /sys folder.