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How to count the number of cores in a Linux machine

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Use the following command: cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep processor | wc –l It is convenient to put it in a script which I will call, for example, ncores: #!/bin/sh cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep processor | wc –l See enclosed screen shot:

Firefox 3.6 beta is still buggy

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My Firefox version 3.6.4 is eating a lot of memory and the longer it is kept open the more memory it consumes, probably a memory leak somewhere. It seems that the blame is on the Plug-ins with their buggy JavaScript codes. Any how the user experience is not as expected. Enclosed a screen dump of the task manager after killing Firefox plugin-container.exe * This post was prepared using Microsoft’s Windows Live Writer.