To know kernel bit in suse linux

[Former Member]

Dear experts,

  Which command is accurate to know operating system bit

getconf LONG_BIT or getconf WORD_BIT.

we are getting differrent output for both....

[vincentlim826 · Accepted solution]

Maybe see /proc/cpuinfo for CPU to be more accurate.

BR, Vincent

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Dear Vincent,

Thanks for reply

I just wanna know output of both commands in linux

getconf LONG_BIT or getconf WORD_BIT.

What's there use in linux. what information we get from command

[vincentlim826 · Accepted solution]

these two commands just to output the number of bit in different format (long int and int)

short int <=    int <= long int

Regards,
Vincent

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

  Thanks a lot.

Issue resolved

[former_member189546]

Hello,

Please try

$ uname -a

x86_64 GNU/Linux indicates that you've a 64bit Linux kernel running. If you use

see i386/i486/i586/i686 it is a 32 bit kernel

regards,

John Feely

[Former Member]

Hi John,

That's fine Thankyou.

but , could you let's know, what is these commands used for