Jeff Squyres wrote: > On Mar 26, 2010, at 11:33 AM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > >> Well, yes, it is supposed to display less information :) >> Which precise difference are you referring to? >> > > The first section of both -- obviously, not the 2nd section of the -v output. > :-) > > The first section of both displays roughly the same information -- the only > addition seems to be the phys number of the socket and the machine memory > sizes (which don't agree between -v and non-v -- why?). Indeed, the "-v" > output seems to remove a lot of whitespace that was included in the non-v > output. > > I just thought it was weird that the -v output is almost exactly the same > information (in the first part), but expressed in more lines with less > whitespace (L1 and core moved to their own lines). More specifically, if > adding the phys number of the socket and the machine sizes is the only > information difference, why not add to the same output format as the non-v > output? >
The reason was that the "phys" attribute is mostly useless for anything but Proc and NUMANode. Current other differences when adding -v are: * "Proc" if -v instead of "P" * print local memory size * print machine DMI attributes * print memory sizes in verbose mode (not rounded to GB or so) Brice
