[geeks] FreeBSD, the saga continues

Jonathan C. Patschke jp at celestrion.net
Tue Mar 10 19:51:46 CDT 2009


On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Phil Stracchino wrote:

> Is there any tool in FreeBSD that can be used to retrieve cpuinfo?  On
> any of my Linux boxen I'd just cat /proc/cpuinfo, but if there's an
> equivalent on FreeBSD to that or, say, prtconf/prtdiag, I've yet to find
> it.

         sysctl hw | more

also:

         sysctl vm.vmtotal

and:

         pciconf -lv

Or, if you really want Linux's procfs:

         mkdir -p /compat/linux/proc
         mount -t linprocfs linproc /compat/linux/proc
         cat /compat/linux/proc/cpuinfo

I wouldn't mount it as /proc, since FreeBSD has a procfs of its own.  See
the procfs and linprocfs man pages for more information.

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