nproc - Man Page

• Display the number of available processing units: nproc
• Display the number of installed processing units, including any inactive ones: nproc --all
• If possible, subtract a given number of units from the returned value: nproc --ignore count

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nproc [OPTION]...

Print the number of processing units available to the current process, which may be less than the number of online processors

--all

print the number of installed processors

--ignore=N

if possible, exclude N processing units

--help

display this help and exit

--version

output version information and exit

Written by Giuseppe Scrivano.

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Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/nproc>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) nproc invocation'

dkms(8), get_nprocs(3), sched_setaffinity(2).