[CentOS] 64 Bit?

[Ray Van Dolson]

On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 10:15:58AM -0600, drew einhorn wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have access to remote VMware ESX server.  Don't really know what the
> underlying hardware is.  Looked at a few dmesg results.  As always
> there is a bunch of stuff I understand and a bunch more that I don't
> understand.  I'd really like to know if it's a 64 Bit CPU, before I
> create my next VM.  But, I can't tell from the dmesgs I've looked at.

You should be able to use cat /proc/cpuinfo or dmidecode to determine
the type of processor in the system.  And use uname -a to see if you're
running a 64-bit kernel on the machine.

Ray