NAME Linux::Proc::Cpuinfo - XS wrapper for libproccpuinfo - a generic parser for /proc/cpuinfo SYNOPSIS use Linux::Proc::Cpuinfo; my $info = Linux::Proc::Cpuinfo->new; if ( defined $info ) { print "Architecture:\t\t", $info->architecture, "\n"; print "Hardware Platform:\t", $info->hardware_platform, "\n"; print "Frequency:\t\t", $info->frequency, "\n"; print "Bogomips:\t\t", $info->bogomips, "\n"; print "Cache:\t\t\t", $info->cache, "\n"; print "CPUs:\t\t\t", $info->cpus, "\n"; } DESCRIPTION Linux::Proc::Cpuinfo is a XS wrapper for "libproccpuinfo" (). It provides a generic interface to access "/proc/cpuinfo". METHODS "new" or "new('filename')" Returns a new Linux::Proc::Cpuinfo object. Without any argument, parses "/proc/cpuinfo". If "filename" is passed, then the file with that name is parsed. On error, returns "undef". "architecture" Returns CPU architecture. If "/proc/cpuinfo" file does not list these values or if the library fails to recognise the architecture, then the value will be set to "undef". "hardware_platform" Returns hardware platform. If "/proc/cpuinfo" file does not list these values or if the library fails to recognise the hardware platform, then the value will be set to "undef". "frequency" Returns the CPU clock speed in MHz. If the "/proc/cpuinfo" file does not list the clock speed or if the library fails to recognise the clock speed, then this value defaults to 0. "bogomips" Returns the BogoMips as calculated by the kernel. BogoMips defaults to 0 if the "/proc/cpuinfo" file does not list the BogoMips or if the library fails to recognise the BogoMips. "cache" Returns the amount of L2 cache in kilobytes. If the "/proc/cpuinfo" file does not list the amount of L2 cache or if the library fails to recognise the amount of L2 cache, then the value defaults to 0. "cpus" Returns the total number of processors detected. On systems that list the number of detected processors and the number of active/enabled processors, the number of detected processors is used. If the "/proc/cpuinfo" file does not list the number of processors or if the library fails to determine the number of processors, then the value defaults to 1 since all running computers have at least 1 processor. INSTALLING "libproccpuinfo" * Gentoo Linux # emerge libproccpuinfo * Generic Linux Download the latest archive (named similar to "libproccpuinfo-x.x.x.tar.bz2") from and extract it. $ cmake -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr . $ make $ make test # make install Please send me information on how to install it on other systems and I will update it here. AUTHOR Alan Haggai Alavi COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is copyright (c) 2011 by Alan Haggai Alavi. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.