psrinfo

- displays information about processors

Synopsis

psrinfo [-p] [-v] [processor_id]...

psrinfo [-p] -s processor_id

Description

psrinfo displays information about processors. Each physical processor may support multiple virtual processors. Each virtual processor is an entity with its own interrupt ID, capable of executing independent threads.

Without the processor_id operand, psrinfo displays one line for each configured processor, displaying whether it is on-line, non-interruptible (designated by no-intr), spare, off-line, faulted or powered off, and when that status last changed. Use the processor_id operand to display information about a specific processor. See OPERANDS.

Options

The following options are supported:

-s processor_id

Silent mode. Displays 1 if the specified processor is fully on-line. Displays 0 if the specified processor is non-interruptible, spare, off-line, faulted or powered off.

Use silent mode when using psrinfo in shell scripts.

-p

Display the number of physical processors in a system.

When combined with the -v option, reports additional information about each physical processor.

-v

Verbose mode. Displays additional information about the specified processors, including: processor type, floating point unit type and clock speed. If any of this information cannot be determined, psrinfo displays unknown.

When combined with the -p option, reports additional information about each physical processor.

Operands

The following operands are supported:

processor_id

The processor ID of the processor about which information is to be displayed.

Specify processor_id as an individual processor number (for example, 3), multiple processor numbers separated by spaces (for example, 1 2 3), or a range of processor numbers (for example, 1-4). It is also possible to combine ranges and (individual or multiple) processor_ids (for example, 1-3 5 7-8 9).

Examples

Example 1 Displaying Information About All Configured Processors in Verbose Mode

The following example displays information about all configured processors in verbose mode.

psrinfo -v 

Example 2 Determining If a Processor is On-line

The following example uses psrinfo in a shell script to determine if a processor is on-line.

if [ "`psrinfo -s 3 2> /dev/null`" -eq 1 ]
then
    echo "processor 3 is up"
fi

Example 3 Displaying Information About the Physical Processors in the System

With no additional arguments, the -p option displays a single integer: the number of physical processors in the system:

> psrinfo -p
                8

psrinfo also accepts command line arguments (processor IDs):

> psrinfo -p 0 512   # IDs 0 and 512 exist on the 
1                    # same physical processor

> psrinfo -p 0 1     # IDs 0 and 1 exist on different 
2                    # physical processors

In this example, virtual processors 0 and 512 exist on the same physical processor. Virtual processors 0 and 1 do not. This is specific to this example and is and not a general rule.

Exit Status

The following exit values are returned:

0

Successful completion.

>0

An error occurred.

Attributes

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

See Also

psradm(1M), p_online(2), processor_info(2), attributes(5)

Diagnostics

psrinfo: processor 9: Invalid argument

The specified processor does not exist.