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To: "Idar Tollefsen" <Idar.Tollefsen@baerum.kommune.no>
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Subject: Re: L2 cache disabled?
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Idar Tollefsen writes:
 > 
 > Is there a way to check if the L2 cache
 > is disabled, if it indeed can be disabled?

You can run lmbench & see what it says about your memory 
bandwidth.  Does it fall of at ~2MB?


Drew


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