cpu.py

   1 # cpu.py
   2 # August 2007
   3
   4 """
   5     This file is part of Arrocco, which is Copyright 2007 Thomas Plick
   6     (tomplick 'at' gmail.com).
   7
   8     Arrocco is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
   9     it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  10     the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
  11     (at your option) any later version.
  12
  13     Arrocco is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  14     but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  15     MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  16     GNU General Public License for more details.
  17
  18     You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  19     along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
  20 """
  21
  22 import os, subprocess
  23
  24 def count_cpus_x():
  25     command = ['grep', '-cw', '^processor', '/proc/cpuinfo']
  26     proc = subprocess.Popen(command, stdout = subprocess.PIPE)
  27     return int(proc.communicate()[0].strip())
  28
  29 def count_cpus():
  30     try:
  31         return count_cpus_x()
  32     except:
  33         return 1