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Subject: Re: CPU underload
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On Sun, 2015-11-08 at 11:23 -0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> ok, what's the l1 cache size reported at boot up?
> 
> I think I may just bump them all to 64.
> 
> 
> -a

64 is not some kind of magic panacea.  The value needs to be set to the
cache line size for the runtime platform.  If the right value is 32,
then setting it to 64 will just waste memory.

-- Ian