[CentOS] Read Processor ID

[Kwan Lowe]

On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 9:24 AM, John Doe <jdmls at yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: "premrajm at digilink.in" <premrajm at digilink.in>
>>On Centos is it possible to read the processor ID from any File ?
>
> cat /proc/cpuinfo

At least on my systems, /proc/cpuinfo does not contain the processor ID.

Output from dmidecone:
Processor Information
        Socket Designation: WMT478/NWD
        Type: Central Processor
        Family: Pentium 4
        Manufacturer: GenuineIntel
        ID: 29 0F 00 00 FF FB EB BF
        Signature: Type 0, Family 15, Model 2, Stepping 9

Output from /proc/cpuinfo:

[root at linbox ~]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 15
model           : 2
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz
stepping        : 9
cpu MHz         : 2658.387
cache size      : 512 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca
cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe cid
xtpr
bogomips        : 5319.34