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How do I find out if my computer has PAE using Linux? [duplicate]
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What do the flags in /proc/cpuinfo mean?
I tried installing CentOS 6.3 on my computer only to see a complaint that my computer doesn't have PAE. I am not sure if my computer ...
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How do I know that my CPU supports 64bit operating systems under Linux?
How can I find out that my CPU supports 64bit operating systems under Linux, e.g.: Ubuntu, Fedora?
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32-bit, 64-bit CPU op-mode on Linux
I'm confused. Running Fedora Linux, lscpu yields:
Architecture: i686
CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit, 64-bit
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But when I try to install a 64-bit program (Chrome) I get error like:
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What does the "bugs" section of /proc/cpuinfo actually show?
On a Debian Stretch and testing/Buster system with a current kernel and installed microcode I still see meltdown and spectre listed as bugs in /proc/cpuinfo.
However, running the spectre-meltdown-...
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How do I check if my CPU supports x86-64-v2?
AMD, Intel, Red Hat, and SUSE have defined a set of "architecture levels" for x86-64 CPUs. For example x86-64-v2 means that a CPU support not only the basic x86-64 instructions set, but also ...
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Does Arch Linux work on i386 cpu architecture
Does Arch Linux work on my i386 cpu. I read on its website that it's optimized for i686, does it mean Arch Linux won't work on i386. By the way, I don't want to compile it, I want to use the ...
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How to use a 64-bit CPU in KVM?
According to tests the Mac Mini 3,1 CPU is 64-bit (grep -q "^flags.*\blm\b" /proc/cpuinfo) and supports Intel virtualization extensions (grep -q "^flags.*\bvmx\b" /proc/cpuinfo). However, after ...
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How to determine CPU features on PowerPC and Power 8 (and above)?
We can examine /proc/cpuinfo on Intel and ARM machines to learn cpu features, like AES and SHA. I need to do the same for PowerPC under both AIX and Linux.
Testing with Linux is shown below. The ...
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How to know if a AMD cpu's SME feature is enabled?
More recent AMD CPUs have a feature named Secure Memory Encryption SME which if available can be explicitly be enabled by adding this parameter to linux' command line.
mem_encrypt=on
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Why do I get different cpu flags in /proc/cpuinfo between CentOS 6 and CentOS 7?
CentOS 6.9 showed the following CPU flags in /proc/cpuinfo:
fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat
pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss syscall nx pdpe1gb rdtscp lm
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CPU MSR dumper tool
I'm looking for a linux tool similar to a cpuid dumper but with a capability to read all of a processor's possible model-specific registers's and outputting them. Does such a tool exist? I'm hoping ...
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Find out if CPU supports dynamic speed setting
I need to find out in my script if a (potentially legacy) CPU supports dynamic speed setting, and eventually get value of maximum and current speed. What makes it more complicated is that I need to ...
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Detect if the computers hardware is capable for a 64bit system?
I'm more and more getting into trouble with my Debian 32 bit system, since some software such as the signal messenger are not written for 32 bit anymore.
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux bullseye/...
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