Description

A Ruby interface for getting cpu information.

Installation

gem install sys-cpu

Notes

Solaris

Currently there is no 'processors()' iterative method for multi-cpu systems.
I plan to add it this in a future release.

OS X

The CPU.model method returns very limited information. I do not yet know
how to get more detailed information.

Linux

This is pure Ruby. This version reads information out of /proc/cpuinfo and
/proc/loadavg, so if /proc isn't mounted it won't work.

The key-value information in /proc/cpuinfo is stored internally (i.e. in
memory) as an array of hashes when you first 'require' this package.  This
overhead is exceptionally minimal, given that your average cpuinfo file
contains less than 1k of text (and I don't store whitespace or newlines).

The text documentation for Linux is dynamically generated during the
build process because the fields vary depending on your setup.  So, don't
look at it until *after* you've installed it.  You will see a doc/linux.txt
file after you run 'rake install' (via install.rb).

HP-UX

Unlike other platforms, you can get load averages for an individual cpu in
multi-cpu systems. See documentation for more details.

Note that version 0.7.x and later will not work on HP-UX because of the
switch to FFI and the lack of a testing platform. However, version 0.6.x
will work just fine.

MS Windows

This is a pure Ruby implementation using the win32ole package + WMI. The C
version has been scrapped. 

As of version 0.5.0, the CPU.usage method has been removed in favor of the
CPU.load_avg method.  This does not (currently) use a perf counter, so there
is no longer any delay.  Also, the 'processors' method has been
added and the 'supported' method has been dropped.  See the documentation
for other changes.

Acknowledgements

Thanks go to the MPlayer team for some source code that helped me on
certain versions of FreeBSD in the original C version.

Known Bugs

None that I'm aware of. Please report bugs on the project page at
https://github.com/djberg96/sys-cpu

Future Plans

Add iterative CPU.processors method.
Add more information in general, such as what 'prtdiag' shows.

License

Artistic 2.0

Copyright

(C) 2003-2015 Daniel J. Berger, All Rights Reserved

Warranty

This package is provided "as is" and without any express or
implied warranties, including, without limitation, the implied
warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.

Author

Daniel J. Berger