within most Solaris shells, no need for Perl, try 

/usr/bin/dmesg | more

I guess you'd do system '/usr/bin/dmesg' and grep out the lines you need...

hth,
Rob
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>       I am looking for a way for Perl to determine how many processors are
> on a
> system.  I know in Windows, I can use the NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS environment
> variable, but *nix doesn't have this.  Any Ideas???
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> Daryl J. Hoyt
> Performance Engineer
> Geodesic Systems
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