Thank you David! One new question:
Are there any performance counters such as other processors have (cache hit/miss, tlb hit/miss, branch predict misses, insns retired etc.) available from Linux? On Fri, 2001-12-28 at 20:08, David Boyes wrote: > > How do I parse the identification field in /proc/cpuinfo? The > > other ones > > I understand. The one I have access to says "processor 0: > > version = FF, > > Probably this indicates you're running under VM or VIF. The Linux guest is > seeing a virtual CPU (on bare metal, this would be the actual physical id of > the CPUs, eg 00, 01, 02, etc) or a LPAR id. > > > identification = 035667 > Serial number of the machine. Uggh, I knew it felt somewhat familiar... > > >, machine = 9672" > > Model of the box. OK, so *any* way to tell which type of CPU type (G3, G4, G5...) I'm running on? (the nice people letting me use this guest are on vacation, and I hate waiting for them to get back :-)) > > -- Cache sizes and speeds (bw and lat) for the different levels of > > cache? (I could use lmbench, but I only have access to one CPU) > > IBM Journal of R&D occasionally publishes some interesting articles in this > vein. Thanks, that paid off immediately, if someone wonders the URL is: http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/rd And they have many nice articles online.
