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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 16:01:08 +0300
From: "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer@gmail.com>
To: lars <lars@storage.mine.nu>, "Nathan Butcher" <xqufa@yokohama.riken.jp>
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Subject: Re: Detecting CPU type without dmesg
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On 3/22/06, lars <lars@storage.mine.nu> wrote:
> Nathan Butcher <xqufa@yokohama.riken.jp> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Here's a curly question:- How can you detect the CPU type (make, model,
> > and rated speed) on a running FreeBSD server without using dmesg?
> >
> > I can't shut this machine off to check BIOS messages, and neither can I
> > check dmesg (it seems that a pile of network dmesg logging has rotated
> > the kernel initialization log part off into the sunset).
> >
> > Is there a way to check CPU processor make and model type at all now?
> > I'm starting to wish that FreeBSD would save the kernel initialization
> > log in a place where it couldn't get lost (sort of like /proc in Linux
> > but without the fanciness that entails)... or perhaps there is such a
> > Valhalla in FreeBSD and I can't see it for the forest?
> >
> > Help much appreciated....
> >
> > Nathan
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> You could use dmidecode, it's in the Ports.

Also sysutils/x86info