Sys::CPU is Copyright (c) 2001-2010, MZSanford This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. For more details, see the full text of the licenses in the directory LICENSES. NAME Sys::CPU - Perl extension for getting CPU information. Currently only number of CPU's supported. SYNOPSIS use Sys::CPU; $number_of_cpus = Sys::CPU::cpu_count(); printf("I have %d CPU's\n",$number_of_cpus); print " Speed : ",Sys::CPU::cpu_clock(),"\n"; print " Type : ",Sys::CPU::cpu_type(),"\n"; DESCRIPTION In responce to a post on perlmonks.org, a module for counting the number of CPU's on a system. Support has now also been added for type of CPU and clock speed. While much of the code is from UNIX::Processors, win32 support has been added (but not tested). EXPORT None by default. AUTHOR MZSanford MAINTENANCE Marc Koderer SEE ALSO perl(1), sysconf(3) CHANGES Revision history for Perl extension Sys::CPU. 0.01 Wed Jun 27 16:43:58 2001 - original version; created by h2xs 1.20 with options -A -n Sys::CPU 0.10 - Added cpu_type and cpu_clock functions - Changed to better win32 suppport (untested) 0.20 - Fixed linux support 0.25 - Fixed dist tar problem 0.30 - Fixed win32 supprot to work with Windows 2000 (thanks Gary) - Changed interface to eliminate cpu numbers 0.35 - Fixed linux support (thanks Peter) 0.40 - Fixed HP-UX support (thanks Brett Gersekowski) 0.45 - Fixed Solaris support 0.50 - Fixed Darwin/Mac Os support (Marc Koderer) 0.51 - Fixed hidden mac os files 0.52 - Fixed bug 50933 and 25253 - Added license info (Fedora bug 585336) 0.53 - Fixed bug in s390 CPU detection (thanks Petr Pisar) 0.54 - Clean up some compiler warnings introduced in 0.53 (thanks Petr Pisar) - Clean up other compiler warnings (thanks Petr Pisar)