32 or 64??

[Karl F. Larsen]

steve reilly wrote:
> Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> 
>> 	You guys sound like you know AMD chips. Do you know if the 
>> AMD Sempron is 64 bit capable. I think this is what I am using 
>> now.
>>
>> 73 Karl
>>
>>
> 
> not sure about your sempron, i believe the newer ones are but older ones 
> not..... to know for sure try these 2 commands
> 
> cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep lm

	For some reason I get all the flags and there is a lm in the 
group.

> 
> if you have lm flag your cpu is 64bit capable
> 
> or
> 
> getconf long_bit
> 
> should return 32 or 64
> This didn't work. It errored out saying long_bit was not a good modifier.

	So I guess I have a 64 bit cpu and it is a AMD Sempron.

Thanks for the things to try. The call $cat /proc/cpuinfo is 
quite useful and tells you all about the CPU.




> 
> 
> 
> steve
> 

Thanks Karl

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